Troubled Times: I Predict Three Lines of Prophecy with the Help of the Heavenly Secret Cauldron

During the three hundred years of the Dayin Dynasty, the imperial power declined, the feudal lords were divided, and foreign tribes were watching. Zhou Huaian, a scholar from a poor family, went to Beijing to take the exam and got fragments of an ancient bronze tripod. From then on, he dreamed of the tripod every night, and a nine-character prophecy appeared on the tripod, hinting at a crisis in the government. When he first entered the capital, he uncovered the atrocities committed by powerful officials, hidden secrets in exam questions, fraud in food and grass, and old cases of the late emperor... Every step he took was on the edge of a knife. Four strange women come to him one after another: the cold and charming eldest princess Xiao Lingyue, the coquettish medical officer Shen Zhibai who is good at poisoning, the daughter of the minister Pei Zhaoning who is soft on the outside but strong on the inside, and the mysterious widowed former female general Qin Wanzhi - all are entangled with his fate because of Ding Guang. There is no backing, no background, only one tripod, one heart, and one pair of eyes, making silent moves in the bloody chess game in the temple, and climbing to the sky step by step.