The protagonist Gu An is a modern history graduate student suffering from congenital heart disease. At the last moment of his life, his soul was swept into the Qin Dynasty by a mysterious force.
When he woke up in the first year of the First Emperor and became a Guizhou head of the same name whose family was ruined by excessive taxes and who himself was dying, the first thing he felt was not ambition, but living. The suffocating feeling of his heart beating crazily against his chest after strenuous exercise truly reminded him of the fragility and preciousness of life.
This sharp sword hanging above his head gave him the deepest tragic color and the most determined power of action: he was born towards death, not only for China, but also to breathe more air in this ancient land.
