- In the last years of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial power fell to the side, aristocratic families controlled the government, and the barbarians in northern Xinjiang watched with eager eyes. This is a troubled world where rituals are broken and music is broken, and human lives are like straw. The protagonist, Su Yunche, is charged with a blood feud that wiped out his family. He started out as an exiled prisoner. He used the wisdom and ruthless methods beyond his time to accumulate strength in the troubled frontier, and finally returned to the capital to settle old scores and rebuild the world.
