The moment bloody lightning split open the wall of the Forbidden City, Xia Xiang, an expert on Qing history, caught a glimpse of his own shadow in the red wall six hundred years ago. When he woke up from the carved beech wood bed in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, he had become the personal secretary of the fifteenth elder brother Yongyan.
This is a story about the growth of a small clerk. Let's see how the clerk overturned the Qing Dynasty and created a new era!
