"Being a good person gets you nowhere. Only bad people can endure through the ages!"
That was Yan Zhizhuo's hard-won wisdom after years as head of the Yan family.
Being a good person should be easy, right?
As it turned out, no surprise: being good was hard, while being bad came naturally.
A good person needed only one mistake to be exposed for what they really were;
a bad person needed only one good deed to be hailed as a reformed scoundrel.
But it didn't matter. He had always intended to become a bad person.
A thousand years ago, the Xiao family started a war on the Youze Continent, hoping to overthrow the rule of the Nine Clans.
The other eight clans joined forces to suppress them. In the end, the Xiao family was defeated and locked away in the Yan family's prison for people with special abilities, which was said to release its inmates "fresh" only after they had died or been dismembered.
Then a prophecy at the Liu family's great ceremony at the beginning of the year shattered the peace that had only just been won.
It led the Yan family to decide to release some unimportant members of the Xiao clan.
The Xiao family unexpectedly learned of the prophecy. Taking advantage of the Yan family's negligence, Madam Xiao disguised herself as a clan member and escaped.
At the time, she was already carrying a child...
From then on, wiping out the Xiao clan became the Yan family's mission.
Would they succeed or fail?
Yan Zhizhuo didn't know.
Ever since the year his grandfather died, it had become his faith.
For his faith, he hurt the girl who had grown up by his side.
For his faith, he made the brothers who trusted him give their lives.
For his faith, he was willing to sacrifice everything.
A thousand years later, trouble stirred across the continent once more.
What fate awaited this land?
The victors become kings, the losers are branded as outlaws. There are no winners.
Theme: I have no faith, and I won't be a good person
