Shen Huang, the legitimate son of the Shen family, was born with a "mind-reading eye" that could detect people's emotions. The Shen family is a family of generals who guard the frontier. He is qualified to inherit the family tradition, but because of his extraordinary talent, his eldest brother Shen Qing is jealous and his second sister Shen Shuangxue is jealous. When Shen Huang was seven years old, his biological mother died of illness unexpectedly. His father Shen Lie was far away on the battlefield, and family affairs fell into the hands of his second wife and eldest brother. When he was ten years old, he was accused of "poor talent" and was demoted from the designated heir to a side branch. He was sent to Chiyang Martial Academy, a third-rate martial arts academy in the southern border of the empire, in name to "sharpen his character", but in reality he was exiled.
Chiyang Martial Arts Academy takes the "actual combat arena" as the core of the assessment. There is a small competition every month and a big competition in March. Those who continue to be at the bottom will be expelled. When Shen Huang first entered the martial arts academy, he was ostracized by his peers and looked down upon by his teachers because he was known as an "abandoned son of his direct lineage." However, his mysterious ability to hide his mind-reading eyes has turned disadvantages into opportunities in countless battles in the arena, games of people's hearts, and the edge of life and death. He started as a handyman disciple at the lowest level, and using the combat method of "seeing through all emotional flaws", he climbed up one arena after another, gradually uncovering the ambitions of various forces within the empire for the Shen family's military power in the border areas.
