Everybody: from the Grocery Store to the World

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Gu Huaiyu, a doctor of philosophy, woke up and became Gu Yanwu's clan brother, a concubine of the late Ming Dynasty who could not even enter clan studies. He took over a dilapidated grocery store that had been losing money for three years, and signed a three-month life-and-death bet to turn it around. Step by step, he quietly emerged in the cracks between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world." These eight words came from the pen of a scholar, who stood up and walked out.