A top student in the modern history department traveled through time and became a shabby scholar in Bianliang City in the Later Liang Dynasty, just when Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty. The protagonist resolves the family crisis with modern knowledge, meets Zhao Hongyin, the future father of Zhao Kuangyin, saves his life with "prophecy", and gains the first pot of gold and connections. At the end of the volume, Zhu Wen was killed. The protagonist took advantage of the chaos to rescue the captive people, and got his first name of "Xiao Mengchang".