His father is a mysterious "Taoist Emperor": he is extremely intelligent, but he has lived in the palace for twenty years and regarded the court as if it were nothing.
When the alchemy furnace in the palace suddenly cooled down, the prince faced an empire that had been controlled by his father's invisible hand for many years and was full of crises.
The powerful ministers are ambitious and shrouded in mystery and suspicion. No one believes that the young prince can control the stormy waves left by his father.