In the seventeenth year of Zhiping, the Great Chu dynasty is battered by storms.
Song Beiwang, a doctor of law, transmigrates into the body of a poor scholar in Huainan Circuit.
From the start, he bears the "hopes" of the whole village: seventeen taels and eight qian. Before him lies a living hell of corrupt officials, powerful families seizing land, and people forced to eat their own children.
An upright official? A dead end.
A corrupt official? A dead end, too.
Standing amid the ruins of the county yamen, Song Beiwang looks at his mud-caked hands.
"If I don't get my hands dirty, how can I clean up this world?"
From a mere adviser to a man with power over all under heaven.
He treads carefully every step of the way, yet wherever he steps, lotuses bloom.
Watch him, an ordinary man, forge a magnificent new age!
