In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, the time traveler Yu Ling woke up in the mud of the capital and became a beggar struggling to survive. An incident involving the theft of waist badges completely separated the fates of him and his adoptive brother Xiaohu. One gritted his teeth and castrated himself and entered the palace to become a young eunuch; the other was adopted by an old man and struggled to advance with his wisdom and precocity. From the ruined temple to the courtyard house, from the cloth village to under the red wall of the Forbidden City, two humble young men are about to embark on a completely different but entangled path of survival in the shadow of the setting sun of the empire. The world is collapsing, and they just want to seize the small happiness in front of them, but they don't know that they have already stepped into the center of the whirlpool of history.
