A Tang Dynasty Rascal Scholar

Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Year 25.

After years of governing with dedication, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang finally settled into a happy life of decadence and extravagance.

The treacherous chancellor Li Linfu held all the power, while Zhang Jiuling, once a great statesman, had grown old.

The beauty Yang Yuhuan, the legendary Li Bai, the infamous Yang Guozhong, and that reckless troublemaker An Lushan.

These famous figures were quietly following the paths history had laid out for them…

But in that year,

the arrival of a penniless young man at a little tavern in Luoyang, the Eastern Capital, changed everyone's fate…