In troubled times, it is difficult to distinguish between black and white. Yu Mingchuan, Gu Qianheng, Cheng Song, Zhen Ruyu and others unexpectedly became connected due to the undercurrents of the temple and the rivers and lakes. Using self-deprecation and humor as their weapons, they experienced political disputes, conspiracies that were difficult to distinguish between true and false, entangled life experiences, and partings between life and death. While the protagonists are fighting for power in the temple and fighting in the rivers and lakes, they are looking for their destiny in life through joking, complaining and helping each other, and fighting against the darkness of fate and human nature. The three volumes respectively tell the story of their acquaintance, fall, and final choice. The intertwining of absurd reality and the subtle emotional bonds between people between good and evil will eventually lead them to the true proposition of "black and white and impermanence". More than a million words are written at the speed of lightning, and after the humor and laughter comes the enlightening question of the times: When power and death are laughed away, what is the meaning of human existence?
