In troubled times, the heroes were divided and the people were displaced. The scholar Xu Xiaoyan originally just wanted to live an ignoble life, but he accidentally got involved in the rebel army led by Chu Yunxiao, and traveled the battlefield with the heroine Wen Wushuang to resolve the crisis. They witnessed the yin and yang methods of the powerful official Feng Zhongzheng in the power struggle and changes in the mountains and rivers, and also experienced the wisdom of the two dogs in the market. The aristocratic girl Han Mingyue joins a gang while on the run, and everyone grows up and develops friendship with each other under humorous banter. As the troubled times unfold, life and death, and power games ensue. In the end, everyone has to make a choice between loyalty and life and death, and write their own joke about the troubled times.