In the third year of Yongchang in the Great Xia Dynasty, the barbarians from the north broke through the border and entered seventeen cities in just three months. Xiao Lie, the king of Zhenbei, was shot in the final battle. Before his death, he entrusted his youngest son Xiao Tiezhu to the captain of his own army. Fifteen-year-old Xiao Tiezhu, a simple and honest young man with the ability to carry a cauldron, was transformed from the prince of the palace to an exiled prisoner overnight.
