Xie Zhao, a modern counselor, traveled through troubled times and became the brains behind Xiao Jingheng, the son of the deposed prince. He used modern thinking to solve the millennium dilemma, and teamed up with the secret guard Su Yan and the salt merchant Shen Zhiwei to gradually transform the exiled boy into an emperor who rules the world. However, Zhou Chongyue, a powerful official in the court, had known about his otherworldly identity for a long time, and Qin Jin, the rebel general in the north, regarded him as a disaster star that would subvert the order. When the truth was revealed layer by layer, Xie Zhao discovered that he was also a victim of the coup that year - and Xiao Jingheng had already secretly planned a counterattack.
