In the first year of Hongwu, the sky was full of wind and snow in Jinling. Zhu Chen fell from another world and happened to crash into the salute of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
After an accidental time travel, he obtained an immortal body and his appearance was forever fixed at the age of twenty-five. But in the early Ming Dynasty, when imperial power was supreme and monsters were regarded as scourges, immortality was never a gift from God, but a life-threatening talisman that could break his bones and turn him into ashes.
In order to survive, he started out as a handyman in the military camp. As a scholar with no strength, he studied martial arts with Xu Da, Lan Yu and other founding generals. In the light of swords and shadows, he developed a body of steel and iron. With his own ability, he stepped into the Imperial Guard and became the sharpest and most secret sword beside the emperor.
But time has been merciless, and his colleagues have gone from black hair to white hair, and the emperors who have ascended the throne have changed one after another, but his appearance has not changed. In order to hide the secret of immortality, he carefully planned to fake his death again and again, changing his name, surname and identity, and reentering the court again and again.
From the iron-blooded killings of Hongwu, to the beacon smoke of Jinnan in Yongle; from the flourishing fireworks of Renxuan, to the mourning of mourners everywhere in Tumubao; from the deep palace monasticism in Jiajing, to the chaos of the eunuchs in Tianqi, to the storm of Meishan in the 17th year of Chongzhen.
He evaded Hongwu's suspicion and Yongle's scrutiny, wandered in the whirlpool of the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and became the most silent witness and the most secret witness of the two hundred and seventy-six years of the Ming Dynasty. He was also the tombkeeper who eventually died with his country.
He has seen the bright edge of the Ming Dynasty in its early days, the glory of its prosperous age, the decadence of its middle age, and its struggles in its old age.
