One is a young man from Qingxi who comes from a poor family and has the ambition to help the world;
One is a powerful family member who treats all people as trivial.
On the way to Beijing to take the exam, Shen Ning witnessed the cruel reality that "rich families are full of wine and meat, and people are freezing to death on the road." He originally thought that the imperial examination was the only way out for scholars, but the moment he stepped into the examination room, he was involved in an imperial examination fraud case that shocked both the government and the public. When the reputation of the Golden Palace was heard, Shen Ning stepped into not only the Hanlin Academy, but also the turbulent whirlpool of power in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
From a stubborn scholar who fought against injustice in the county town, to a seventh-rank county magistrate in the capital, who was dealing with nine admirals and cabinet bachelors; from a hard-working minister who controlled floods and stabilized food prices, to the current prime minister who implemented the New Deal and fought against centuries-old clans. Shen Ning spent twenty years proving to the world that the so-called aristocratic family is just a servant who shepherds the people for the emperor; even a poor family has the backbone to mend the cracks in the sky. This is a story about how knowledge changes destiny and ideals illuminate the road to power.
