Shen Zhao, a scholar from a poor family, relied on his courage and strategy to step by step from a bullied lower-class commoner to a powerful minister who set things right and broke the monopoly of the clans in the era of the nine-level Zhongzheng system, dominated by wealthy families such as the Langya Wang family and the Chenjun Xie family. The emotional line between the male protagonist and the female protagonist is based on mutual support in troubled times, without cruelty or misunderstanding, and unfolds with the ultimate rational romance.
