When Lin Yuan, a graduate student in the Department of History, was browsing "History of the Ming Dynasty" in the Nanjing Library, he found that someone had written four words in pencil on the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's biography - "She should not have died." After a moment of dizziness, he opened his eyes and found himself standing on the streets of Haozhou City in the twelfth year of Zhizheng.
This is the territory of the Red Scarf Army Guo Zixing, and the soldier who is asking him whether to surrender to the army is named Tang He.
Lin Yuan realized that he had traveled to a time when China's fate would be decided for six hundred years. And the reason why he came here is hidden in those four pencil characters - Ma Xiuying, the queen who can no longer be explained in the history books fifteen years after Hongwu, what happened to her before her death?
Starting from suturing wounds with salt water in the wounded barracks, to climbing around the cliffs of Heifeng Village and wiping out all the bandits, to improving black powder to blow up the Dingyuan city defenses - Lin Yuan stood firm in troubled times step by step. But he had only one real goal: to marry Ma Xiuying before Zhu Yuanzhang.
Siege, landslide, poison knife. The moment Ma Xiuying said "I choose Lin Yuan" in front of a crowd of generals, the gears of history began to deviate from the track. Zhu Yuanzhang only left one sentence on the deserted slope outside the city -
"You owe me a life. Ma Xiuying's life."
