Nineteen-year-old trainee teacher Lin Yifeng is framed by the son of a powerful man for spying on someone bathing. He is paraded through the streets and thrown into the prison's death row.
Everyone thinks he is finished.
But they do not know that, in the deepest part of the prison, there is an old man who can teach him to turn the world upside down.
Once he breaks free, he rises from a street prisoner to a powerful new figure in the provincial capital, from a humble scholar to a man who holds sway over the court.
He topples warlords, takes over businesses, builds schools, and wins people's hearts. His enemies fall one by one as he climbs higher with every step.
But when he finally reaches the pinnacle of power, he discovers that this empire has already rotted to its core.
He does not want to be an official. He wants to remake the world.
From prisoner to ruler, one man's defiant path to power.
This is a traditional novel, with no System.
This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
Hey, what if the fire tongs explode? 😅
It's good-looking, I love watching it.