But this is not just one man's story:
Zhang Xianzhong's struggle between the hero and his father
Sun Kewang's complex face intertwined with ambition and talent
Zheng Chenggong's difficult choice between sea and land
Emperor Yongli's transformation from puppet to king
As well as Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, and Kong Youde - ordinary people who were labeled as "traitors" and were swept away by the torrent of the times.
When the dust of history has settled:
Li Dingguo stood on the Shanhaiguan Pass, with the reunited mountains and rivers of the Han family behind him, and the vast Saibei grassland in front of him. He knew that he had rewritten history, but he knew even more that what was more difficult than expelling the Tartars was to make the people of this land never kneel down again.
"To the north, to the north"
Not only the direction of an army's advance,
It is also a nation in its darkest moment,
To survive, to dignity, to the future,
Never look down.
"I'm not a hero, just a remedy three hundred years late."
——Li Dingguo