A modern soul transmigrates to the end of the Yuan dynasty. A beggar meets Zhu Yuanzhang and becomes his trusted confidant.
When the Ming dynasty is founded, the emperor entrusts him with the realm and charges him with protecting the dynasty for generations to come.
With a lifespan of a thousand years, he defies fate and rewrites history:
curbing the princes, suppressing the eunuchs, strengthening the state, and saving it from ruin.
Yet in the end, he cannot overcome history’s tendency to correct itself.
From the founding of the dynasty amid chaos to the snow falling on Coal Hill,
he witnesses the Ming’s every triumph and its eventual collapse,
and learns just how utterly powerless an individual can be against the torrent of destiny.
