Chen Wang, a modern-day overworked office worker, dies from working overtime and is reborn as an unknown beggar in the Great Jing dynasty. From the start, he's falsely accused of assassinating a county magistrate and forced to flee for his life.
On the run, he accidentally gets caught up in the wrongful case against the Dongfang family.
Relying on his silver tongue and a ruthless determination to risk his life, he claws his way out of a pile of corpses and into the army.
He fights other rough soldiers for food, outwits his superiors, and climbs the ranks step by step through bloody battles.
In the end, the street urchin transforms into a great general whose name resounds throughout the land.
Through bloodshed and turmoil, he writes a stirring legend of a nobody's rise to greatness.
