On New Year's Eve of the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign, Jin Yiwei broke into the house. My father was pinned to the ground and accused of being "an associate of Hu Weiyong."
That night, Shen Ji lost his home, his name, and everything.
An old servant took him out of the capital, concealed his name, and became a handyman in Linhuai County, Fengyang Prefecture. Sweeping the floor, chopping firewood, pouring night incense - falling from heaven into the mire is just a piece of edict.
But he has a library in his head. The books I have read, the people I have seen, and the account books I have scanned will never be forgotten. Every time he uses it too much, he will vomit blood and faint. This talent is both his salvation and his curse.
From a county clerk to a government student, from the head of an imperial examination to an important minister in the court - he wants to use his pen to pry open the iron door that was welded shut by the powerful, clear his father's wrongdoing, and clear his name.
But he didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang had been watching him. The butcher's knife that fell on New Year's Eve hid a deeper secret than the Hu Weiyong case. And when he finally stood on the Golden Palace, he realized that his counterattack was never a person's destiny.
