(No formulaic tropes, no System, no invincible hero, no characters with their brains switched off, and no easy revenge. This is a slow-growing tale of political scheming. Enter at your own discretion.)
Amid the chaos of war, a poor-born youth named Lin Yuan picks up half of a battered military manual from a mountain of corpses, only to be wrongfully put to death after getting caught up in a struggle among the feudal lords.
Reborn at the age of fifteen, he carries the memories of his past life and a heart full of vengeance, determined never again to let others decide his fate.
As Lin Yuan struggles to choose between power and love, he gradually comes to understand that true revenge is not simply a matter of killing. It means completely changing the rotten order of this chaotic world and building a new one free of betrayal and hunger.
While the feudal lords go to war over the celadon tea cups he has made, Lin Yuan has already laid a game-changing plan capable of overturning the realm. The sixteen characters inscribed on the bottom of a cup are his solemn vow to this troubled age.
