A storm begins as a ripple at the edge of a duckweed leaf; a wave takes shape in the faintest swell. In the flourishing capital of Tiansheng, Chang’an, beneath its dazzling splendor, every shadow might swallow an insignificant nobody, or conceal the claws of a dragon about to soar into the clouds. Li Guan, an obscure nobody, only wants to survive, and maybe… pierce a hole in the heavens.