The Great Xia Dynasty has gone through five hundred years of glory. Now the emperor is old and frail, kings are coveting it, powerful ministers are in power, and there are many aristocratic families. The giant ship of the dynasty is slowly sailing towards the abyss called "the end of the world".
Gu Shen, the son of a petty official in the Yulin Guard of Shendu, originally wanted to be a bystander in this turbid world, sipping a pot of bad tea and watching the ups and downs of Shendu.
However, with a jail sentence, his father was unjustly imprisoned, and the butcher's knife of his political enemy was hung around his neck. He was forced to change from a spectator to a pawn on the chessboard who could be crushed at any time.
But they don't know that what this seemingly harmless young man hides in his sleeve is not tears of self-pity, but a blade that can overturn the chess game.
When everyone thought he was a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, Gu Shen smiled.
"Your rules are meant to be followed."
"My rules are meant to be broken."
Get people from the imperial edict, gain a foothold in the court, wander among factions, and seek skin from tigers and wolves. He uses the human heart as a battlefield, authority as a weapon, and the entire world as a bet.
Many years later, when Gu Shen stood at the top of power, he looked back at the journey he came from, with countless bones behind him and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in front of him.
Someone asked him: "Do you believe in destiny?"
He just calmly wiped an old wooden sign in his hand and said calmly: "I am destiny."
