During the Yuanyou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an undercurrent of struggle between the old and new parties. Shen Yan, a scholar from a poor family who failed to pass the exam, was mistakenly kidnapped into the Prime Minister's Mansion on the night of the announcement of the exam because he looked very similar to a popular scholar. In order to save his life, he stepped into this identity puzzle by mistake, but he didn't know that he had been involved in a vortex of conspiracy that could overturn the court. A commoner was forced to deal with the high walls of a wealthy family, struggling at every step in the cracks of imperial examinations, party struggles, and power schemes.
