Modern office drone Zhu Heng wakes up to find that he has become Zhu Chongba, a poor boy in Haozhou at the end of the Yuan Dynasty who is on the verge of starving to death. From the start, his parents are dead, his eldest brother has just breathed his last, and all the family has left is a broken pot and a few ragged clothes. Faced with a landlord demanding repayment, disaster victims watching him like a hawk, and the looming threats of plague and war, Zhu Heng is stunned. His only golden finger is the scattered bits of historical knowledge in his head. To survive, he buries his family, takes on the landlord, and enters Huangjue Monastery. Step by step, a beggar on the verge of starvation begins his epic rise. This is not just one man's struggle to survive, but the founding story of a new empire.
