When Gu Chen came to the royal capital for the first time, he just wanted to make enough money to go back to the north and build a tomb for his sister.
But on his first day in the city, he offended the Imperial Taxation Department for a batch of life-saving medicine sent to the front line, and accidentally got involved in an underground organization called "Yejin".
From that night on, he knew for the first time how many corpses were buried beneath the glory of this prosperous empire.
The "relic" that can control extraordinary power, the empire executive who hunts Ye Jin, the true ruler hidden behind the throne... More and more people fell beside Gu Chen.
But it wasn't until later that he discovered that the cruelest thing was not how dark the empire was.
But——
Those who want to overthrow darkness may not stand in the light.
When the old order begins to collapse, Gu Chen must make a choice:
Should he raise the butcher's knife for the new king, or personally cut off the throne that has lasted for three hundred years?
