Although this novel has a time-travel theme, its core is a serious historical literary creation. I will follow the principle of writing historical novels that "the big things are true and the small things are not unrestrained", and on the premise of respecting the basic historical context of the late Sui Dynasty, I will fill in the "folds of history" through reasonable artistic imagination. The novel not only tells the story of an emperor's counterattack, but also aims to explore profound propositions about power, human nature, institutional change and the continuation of civilization.