In his last life, Xiao Jingci was executed by his entire family because of an unjust case, and he died in an unknown manner. After resurrecting his life, he returned to three years before the tragedy and became an inconspicuous little waiter in the Hanlin Academy. He just wants to live peacefully, be a tortoise, and stay as far away from those big shots as possible. But once the gears of fate turn, it's no longer up to him. In order to protect himself, he had to use the memory of his previous life to walk on the edge of a knife and seek skin from the tiger. He calculates people's hearts and sets up a chess game, but he doesn't know that he has already become someone else's pawn. In this bottomless palace, every step is an abyss. The only thing he can do is to be more sober and ruthless than everyone else.
