In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Gu Yunqi, a graduate student in the history department, traveled through time and became a down-and-out scholar in Hanzhong Prefecture. There is no army, no food and wages, just more than 300 people waiting to die, and a weird system that uses "people's hearts" as currency.
Troubled times cannot tolerate being alone - if you want to survive, you must become stronger. Starting from a well and a wooden wall, Gu Yunqi led a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people to survive among broken soldiers, rogue bandits and gentry. What he wants to do is not to proclaim himself emperor, but to become the last pillar of Ming Dynasty.
This is not the heroic story of one person, but how a group of people who don't want to die live like humans in a world of cannibalism.
Mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, but only two words are human hearts.
