Prequel

A story about an unjust case crushed by power. Shahe, a slave soldier, went out at night to buy medicine for his younger brother, and was regarded as a scapegoat by the Tanzhou government for killing the Caogang servants. Under the triple pressure of the power of the Wei family, the official career of the prefect, and the military needs of the court, the truth was covered up layer by layer. Shahe was forced to plead guilty and be exiled, becoming another nameless ghost under the system's machine, and also paving the way for him to become a rolling curtain general in the future. During the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, the superficially prosperous Chang'an court was in sharp contrast to the border states and counties. The official power network was intricate. Children of aristocratic families could escape crimes based on their surnames, while the slaves at the bottom did not even deserve to have their surnames. The law was just a fig leaf for the power game.