Autumn, the eleventh year of Yongxi.
Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture. In front of the county school, Wu Mingshu, a sixteen-year-old scholar from a poor family, was trampled to pieces in public by the son of the county's richest man.
He was neither angry nor contentious. He just squatted down and collected the scattered bamboo papers one by one.
But no one knows - there are four words written on this trodden article.
These four words should have only been known to three people in the Wenyuan Pavilion in the Forbidden City: Dang Hao, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, and Second Assistant of the Cabinet.
Three days later, Shenjing Wenyuan Pavilion. Qin Xingjian, the second assistant to the cabinet, opened a six-hundred-mile urgent letter. When he saw those four words, the cup of herbal tea in his hand hung in the air and did not fall for a long time.
How could a young man from a poor family in Wu County write the secret edict of the Heavenly Family?
This is a prosperous time. This is also a prosperous age that has long been cracked inside.
And some people are born to find a way out of this gap.
