Su Chen, a lowly good-for-nothing disciple who possesses the forbidden Dao of bartering away years of his life, grows stronger against the odds and fights back from the brink amid prejudice and oppression from his sect. He does it all to protect Lin Qingxue, the only woman he loves, whose fate is in tatters and whose life is nearly over. He defeats Shen Jinghong, the genius senior brother despised by the world for his cruel, obsessive evil, defies Heaven’s will, changes his fate, and finds happiness with the heroine. Then a shocking twist is revealed: Shen Jinghong was a tragic martyr who shouldered infamy to protect the Three Realms. The protagonist’s perfect life and triumphant reversal came entirely from stealing and shifting calamities onto him, forming a fated cycle in which good and evil have traded places, built on Shen Jinghong’s sacrifice.