**Core Conflict Build**:
- **Villain Agent**: In order to cover up the crime of falsely reporting political achievements and deceiving superiors and subordinates, the prefect Zhou Wenyuan united with local powerful people and backers in the DPRK to brutally suppress and frame Yu Jing, a poor scholar who exposed the truth.
- **Chips of Destiny**: If Yu Jingruo fails, not only will he repeat the mistakes of his previous life and behead everyone in his family, but his belief in "building a life for the people" and the backbone of the poor people will also be completely broken, leaving no voice in the troubled world.
- **Dilemma**: After rebirth, Yu Jing must choose between "escaping immediately to save his life" and "taking another risk to reveal the truth, but in a smarter way". The former means giving up survival and belief, while the latter may get burned again.
**Character Dilemma Design**:
- **Strength/Emotional Dilemma**: As a poor scholar with no foundation, Yu Jing faces an intricate alliance of bureaucrats and local powerful people, with a huge disparity in strength. In his previous life, he died tragically because he was too upright and did not know how to adapt. After his rebirth, he needs to overcome his character weakness of "rather bending than bending" and learn to use strategies to deal with things.
- **Environmental/Social Oppression**: In the era he lived in, the concept of family status was still strong, the promotion channels for poor families were narrow, and it was normal for officials to protect each other. Every time he speaks out, the entire corrupt bureaucracy may be regarded as heresy and work together to stamp it out.
**Time and Environmental Pressure**:
- **Countdown Threat**: There are less than three months left before the tragedy of being imprisoned and executed in the previous life. He must find the key to breaking the situation within this limited time and reverse the situation.
