Wan Zhihun traveled to the culturally stagnant Xia Dynasty and became a marginalized student from a poor family. Relying on modern poetry theory and historical knowledge, he shocked the literary world with a stunning work, but it attracted the joint suppression of conservative literati. Under the double attack of power and culture, Wan Zhi must win the Royal Poetry Society through poetry innovation within three months, otherwise he will lose his qualifications for the imperial examination and will never be allowed to enter the officialdom. Faced with the trap of conservative literati, the struggle for the interests of the powerful, and the factional struggles within the court, Wan Zhi used modern thinking to solve the dilemma of the ancient literary world. In the game of power and culture, he gradually established his own power, eventually breaking the shackles of culture and creating a new style of writing, but he was also involved in a greater whirlpool of power.
