During the Yongxi period of the Great Qi Dynasty, Zhang Chongyuan, the first assistant, took charge of the court and used military power to lay out a huge situation. He used the imperial examination to conceal the truth. For more than ten years, he installed party members and exterminated loyal people. The promotion path of the poor scholars was completely welded.
Xie Linyan lived in poverty for ten years, and his article "An Border Policy" was personally designated as the number one scholar by the emperor. However, when he was named on the gold medal list, he was replaced by a powerful official and a concubine. He resisted in court but was sentenced to death row for fraud by Luo Zhi. He relied on half a silver soldier talisman passed down by his father to break the poison test, faked his death and escaped from prison, and worked step by step to dismantle the four-layered murder scheme of "name-locking, marriage-making, trapping and killing" of powerful officials.
Su Huai, an orphan girl whose family was full of copycats, hid in Weichen Bookstore and stayed dormant for three years with handwriting verification as his sharpest edge. The two of them were born together, and they used ink as a soldier and strategy as a blade. They were surrounded by dangers in the web woven by powerful ministers. Finally, with a book of ink, they cleared the grievances, killed the powerful traitors, and opened a bright future for the poor in the world!