In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1644), the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. Inside, Li Zicheng's millions of troops came to Beijing, and outside, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were watching. The empire is about to collapse, and the wheel of fate rolls over everyone's life.
The story revolves around Chen Mu, a loyal but marginalized Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi, and Su Wanqing, a young woman struggling to survive among the three forces of Ming, Chuang and Qing. From the doomsday panic in Beijing, to the surviving Southern Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, to the power struggle among the white mountains and black waters outside the Pass, they were swept up by the torrent of the times and made difficult choices between loyalty and betrayal, survival and morality, love and family and country. This is not only an epic about the change of dynasties, but also a tragic story about small people struggling to survive and pursue faith and hope in troubled times.
