In the forty-seventh year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, there was a locust plague in Guanzhong, which caused starvation and blocked the road. Hu Lie, a young man from Baqiao, lost his grandfather in the war and his father who died unjustly in prison. His fiancée, Zhao, delivered a divorce letter to his door with a humiliating postscript: "Even God doesn't bless your family. How can you use your merits to become a knight?"
