Return to Datong

Lin Yu, a seventeen-year-old ordinary high school student, traveled through the late Spring and Autumn Period and became a young king of Chu in name only, controlled by an aristocratic family, and on the verge of subjugation. Rituals have collapsed, wars continue, nobles are exploited, and refugees are everywhere. I accidentally learned that Confucius was traveling around the world, pursuing the great path and the ideal of great harmony where the world is for the common good. With sincerity from the Taiping Era, Lin Yu made a great wish: to use Chu as a chess piece to help saints realize their dreams. But when ideals run into troubled times, there are always only thorns everywhere. He was frivolous in corvee and low in taxes, but in exchange for the alliance of aristocratic families, he was framed; he was respectful to Confucius, and both the emperor and his ministers were forced to leave the capital; he was kind-hearted, but in exchange for the betrayal of the people after being incited by rumors. Goodwill is not a sharp weapon, and benevolence and righteousness cannot withstand the sword. Betrayals, defeats, and wars forced the young king to let go of his innocence. On one side is the gentle holy way that Confucius adhered to for half his life, transforming the world with virtue, and on the other side is the iron-blooded power tactics that must be practiced to survive in troubled times. The two people's ideals collided and fell apart several times, and friends, courtiers, and people swayed repeatedly. The princes of Qi, Jin, and Wu regarded "Datong" as a scourge and conspired to extinguish this ideal. Can Datong be inspired by virtue, or can it only take root by stepping on bones and breaking the shackles of the old era? The young King of Chu and his sage master entered the situation in the turbulent Spring and Autumn Period. There is no smooth journey of cheating, only twists and turns of struggle, choices and sins. If someone in the Qing Dynasty was destined to bear eternal infamy, then he would be the one to bear it. A long and arduous journey of betting on eternal peace with the power of one country has begun.