In the twelfth year of the Daxing Anping era, the realm is at peace, and songs and dances fill the land.
No one knows that the dynasty's greatest enemy is seated right there in court: Xiao Chong, the Grand Tutor, whose former students are spread across the realm and whose power dominates the court. His true identity, however, is that of a royal descendant from the northern enemy state.
The only person who sees through it all is Liu Yi.
He is a transmigrator, carrying three human-skin masks that can alter his appearance and a soul from another era. Starting as a nobody in Sixian County, he uses his poetic talent to break through crises and his cunning as a blade, step by step entering the heart of power.
But the line between pawn and player is often crossed in a single thought.
When every disguise has been used and his last escape route is cut off, he chooses to face the whole realm as his truest self.
