In the third year of Jinghe under the Great Yong dynasty, a severe drought struck the northern lands, and corpses of the starved littered the fields.
Sixteen-year-old Chen Yan survived a pile of corpses with half a moldy wheat cake.
That half a cake was the first debt he owed in his life.
He had no family connections, no master, and no cheat. With only a heart that could conceal thunderous power, he entered the county office, moved up to the provincial government, and made his way to the capital. Navigating the whirlpool of political schemes one careful step at a time, he rose from an ordinary commoner to a man whose power eclipsed all under heaven.
The world saw him as a speck of dust.
So he used that speck of dust to blanket the world.
No transmigration · No System · Pure political intrigue · Victory through intelligence alone
