A Scheme to Overturn the World: The Blind Minister Took a Tyrant as His Master from the Start

> At the end of the Yun Tang Dynasty, he was a destitute man in plain clothes, leaning on a blind man’s cane as he sheltered beneath an eave from the rain. > Yet the tyrant, who had burned himself to death as his kingdom fell, mistook him for his former mentor and abducted him to the palace. > He only wanted to keep his head down and survive. Instead, he somehow began advising on matters of state and restoring order, drawing every power under heaven to seek his counsel. > Until the day the tyrant lay gravely wounded and near death, clutching his wrist. “If I die, Master, you’ll be blind... Who will protect you for the rest of your life?” > The palace gates burst open. He looked up in bewilderment to see the lords and heroes of the realm kneeling throughout the hall. > “We beseech you, Master. Come forth and take charge of the realm!”