In 951 AD, modern man Su Mu woke up and found himself lying on the streets in troubled times.
He met Zhao Kuangyin, a burly man carrying an eyebrow-level stick and handing him a bowl of wine. Su Mu knew that the man in front of him would wear a yellow robe more than ten years later and become the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. He chose to follow this man and be an inconspicuous follower, serving tea and water, working hard without complaint.
For twenty-five years, he stood in the darkness of history and watched those radiant people go to their respective destinies: the cold arrows in the Battle of Gaoping, the yellow robes of the Chenqiao Mutiny, the tears of giving up military power over a glass of wine, the confrontation under the city of Taiyuan, and the night of the sound of candle shadow and axe.
What he doesn't know is that there is another time traveler in the world. That man's name was Chu Lingxiao, and he chose the completely opposite path - he wanted to change history with his own hands. The two went from sympathy to each other to a rupture of ideas, and from old friends to mortal enemies.
Eventually, he returned to a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, opened a school to teach, and grew old in peace. Before he died, he wrote the story of his life into a book manuscript.
The manuscript later disappeared. But the story passed down—
There was a follower who stayed with the emperor all his life and never took any credit.
