Jiang Linsen, a top student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, finds himself transported into another world of painting and reborn as a despised, spoiled young nobleman.
Painters in this world strive for form, meaning, and divine transcendence.
But he brings with him the accumulated legacy of all modern art history, giving him an overwhelming advantage.
Sketching is the foundation of all things, perspective cuts through illusion, and color rules emotion.
He will cast Impressionist light and shadow across the battlefield, reconstruct the laws of the world with Abstractist compositions, and depict the gods in hyperrealist detail.
When he proves his Dao through painting and ascends to sainthood, he plans to lie flat. But then he looks up at the sky...
At the edge of the sky is the blank space on a painting scroll.
So he picks up the brush named "Creation" and chuckles:
"Looks like this world needs a new author."
