The Great Zhou Returns to Its Roots

After Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou dies suddenly, a child takes the throne. The powerful minister Zhao Kuangyin commands a vast army, fabricates reports of border trouble, and secretly plots the Chenqiao mutiny to overthrow Zhou and found Song. Guo Chengzu, the direct descendant of the founding emperor Taizu, has lived in hiding among the people for nine years. Armed with a legitimate claim to the throne, he secretly brings together former officials and soldiers, wins the army's loyalty, and lays plans across the court. At the decisive moment of life and death during the Chenqiao upheaval, the hidden dragon breaks the deadlock and defies fate, cutting short Zhao's ambitions, shattering the inevitable course of the dynastic transition, and saving the crumbling Later Zhou from collapse. He ends a century of chaos, reshapes the realm, and restores the Later Zhou's founding legacy.