At the beginning of the founding of Dayan, Emperor Wuzu conquered Liuhe, conquered all over the world, and established his capital in Luojing, the divine capital. However, after three hundred years of peace, the vigor and character of the past have long been wiped away by the entanglement of aristocratic families, the rigidity and decay of the bureaucracy, and the luxurious and comfortable life. The current Emperor Jinglong had the intention to work hard for governance when he was young. However, he had been trapped in the factional disputes and the suspicions in the palace for a long time. He had long been discouraged. He turned to seeking immortals and praying for immortality. He left the power of the government in the hands of his relatives and eunuchs, which led to the corruption of the government and the instability of the country.
This is an era when loyalty is abandoned and there are no heroes. Internally, land annexation has reached its limit, refugees are everywhere, public resentment is boiling, and local vassal towns have become separatist; externally, the Golden Wolf Khanate in the north has unified the grasslands and is sharpening its sword, the Baiyue barbarians in the south are ready to move, and the Yingzhou Japanese pirates in the east are intruding endlessly. The entire dynasty is like a giant ship riddled with holes, sliding irrevocably toward the abyss of overturning.
The protagonist Chen Mo, a graduate student in the Department of Modern History, travels through the darkest and most desperate moment to become the powerful Grand Master of the Dayan Dynasty - a powerful traitor who was notorious for "bullying superiors and bullying, corrupting and perverting the law, and framing loyal people" in the original historical trajectory, and was eventually executed by the angry military and civilians. And his mission is to put on this black gauze hat, bear this eternal infamy, and fight for this dying empire to find a way to survive against the odds.
