In the autumn of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, the "Spring and Autumn" examination papers were "accidentally" destroyed one after another, leaving only forty-three volumes, and the "regicide" paradox was hidden in each volume. The examiner Xu Jie is in a deadlock: if he is selected, he will be in trouble, but if he is removed, the examination hall will be shaken. A water-stained page and a few lines of iron paintings and silver hooks pulled out three hundred erased authentic scrolls. The ink words are like knives, piercing the heart and deeds. A silent game surrounding the classics and imperial power suddenly unfolded within the copper and iron walls of the Gongyuan.
