Once he traveled through time, Lin Muzhi found himself in a hell on earth - the city of Yangzhou was destroyed, the Qing army massacred the city in ten days, and corpses were everywhere. He is a history teacher, full of knowledge, but he cannot save any of the dying people in front of him. In desperation, he rescued a Qing servant who was about to poison his body and die with the Qing army leader - an avenger who was more paranoid and crazy than him.
"Aren't you afraid of death?"
"I'm afraid, but I'm even more afraid of seeing the mountains and rivers shattered while I'm alive."
Two people who depended on each other in troubled times, with their own unwillingness and anger, embarked on an impossible road.
When he sought refuge in Nanming, he saw officials living in a state of intoxication and killing each other; when he contacted the rebels, he saw that they were fighting independently and in disarray. Lin Muzhi finally understood: on this road full of rotten trees and mud, he must first build a bridge with his own hands.
Recruiting troops, rectifying the military and political affairs, innovating firearms - a time-traveling history teacher, with a fierce woman bent on revenge, rose from the ruins of Yangzhou City. They want this blood-stained land to stand up again and the fire of civilization called "China" to never go out.
