Su Chang'an, top scorer in the liberal arts examinations, wakes up one day as the deposed and exiled crown prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Thousands curse him, he is humiliated at every turn, and even the lowly clerk escorting him spits in his face.
Everyone thinks his life is over in this bitter, freezing wasteland. Then comes a rainy night: bandits ambush him, a blade rests against his throat, and he casually recites half a line of poetry.
The wind and rain turn into blades. One word sends thirty riders fleeing.
No one knows that a “Timeless Literary Heart” has awakened within him. He cultivates the Dao through study, slays enemies with poetry, and governs the realm through the written word. To the world, he is the lowliest page at the academy. In the shadows, he is the blade behind the game that controls the world.
From condemned prisoner to top scholar, from junior tutor to the literary sage who rules as regent.
Those who once trampled him will one day grovel at his feet, their tombstones engraved with the words he wrote.
“In this life, I will make my writing the law of all under heaven.”
