In troubled times, the border town is short of food, and Ye Chengran, a scholar from a poor family, is forced to die as a scapegoat. However, he seizes military power in a desperate situation, breaks the deadlock, gathers refugees, kills powerful men, and rises from the blood side by side with Zhong Ruoxi, the orphan girl of the general. The princes in the world laugh at him for being rootless and powerless, but he insists on using the remnant soldiers of the city as an blade to fight through thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and aspire to be the co-leader of the nine states.
