When he opened his eyes, Gu Yan, a PhD in Chinese literature, had become a condemned prisoner in the chaotic Five Dynasties era, about to be executed!
If you knew how history would end, that Song Taizu, Zhao Kuangyin, would don the imperial yellow robe and establish a dynasty that lasted three hundred years...
Then what would you do if you transmigrated to the time before his "usurpation," becoming his "political enemy" and helping the "last" great ruler he was destined to replace, Chai Rong?
Would you kill him and defy Heaven's mandate?
You would face a desperate gamble in a world plunged into chaos and drenched in blood.
Would you help him and bow to Heaven's mandate?
You would bear the burden of betraying the great ruler who was your confidant, and dance with the "monster" you had created with your own hands.
Or... would you become his "godfather," personally crafting the perfect script for his "usurpation" and inscribing the rules you wanted upon the crown he would one day wear?
In this contest against "history" itself, Gu Yan made a fourth choice.
