After a car accident, the male protagonist Chen Ke travels to northern Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty and becomes a rogue. In the small glacier climate, the fields are dry for many years and there is no harvest. Even if the peasants sold their sons and daughters, they could not afford to pay the wages and various taxes passed on to the peasants by the officials and gentry. Especially in the Loess Plateau of northern Shaanxi, with its ravines and barren land, the people had no way to make a living and had to exchange their children for food. All kinds of bandits and giants emerge in endlessly.
