Chen Yanqing, a poor family’s son-in-law, is bullied like a dog by the powerful men of the court. Yet on the day he ascends the throne, the entire court kneels and bows before him. He uses a marriage contract to infiltrate the Marquis’s residence, relies on Shen Zhiwei to control intelligence, uses Huo Jiuyuan’s troops to intimidate the frontier, and draws on Liu Huaiyin’s secret knowledge to restore the ancestral system. Zhao Chongli’s embezzlement and betrayal of the nation, and Cui Mingzhao’s inability to let go of the past, are all trials on his path to the throne. When he dons the imperial robes, no one knows that the despised son-in-law is the soul of an emperor from a past life returned. Now he will use the blood of the poor to reshape this thousand-year-old dynasty.
