A modern university student is hit while walking and falls into a coma. His soul enters a parallel timeline in the Tang Dynasty, where powerful clans dominate the land. The protagonist, an ordinary merchant, uses his modern knowledge to earn a place in a local academy by sheer luck. Once there, he sees the full cruelty of the world. He originally wanted to follow Huang Chao’s example: “When autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month, after my flowers bloom, all other flowers will die.” But he lacks the strength to do so, and in the end can only think of staking his life from the start, inviting all the great families into the game. With the people of the Tang as his hand, he petitions the emperor to sweep away the clans. The clans are eventually driven out by public outrage. One by one, their names are called from the clan register, and blood flows like a river. The monopoly is finally broken.
