In the seventh year of the Hejian period, the Ji Dynasty looked like a prosperous country on the outside, but it was riddled with holes on the inside. Barbarians in the north plundered the border every year, floods in the south caused disasters, factions in the court fought with each other, and exorbitant taxes and levies were piled on the shoulders of the people at the bottom. The prelude to the chaos slowly began.
The souls of modern ordinary people traveled to the Cao family in Nancheng and became Cao Wen, a sideline concubine who had no father or mother and was bullied by others. The original owner offended his direct descendant, Cao Xuan, and was pushed down and hit the back of his head. He then died, ushering in the soul of a visitor from a foreign land. Living in a highly hierarchical clan, the direct branch holds power and oppresses the other branches at will. Etiquette and law only protect the powerful, and the weak have to do their best to survive.
Cao Wen did not want to repeat the tragedy of his original owner's resignation, and struggled to survive in the Cao family compound where there were traps at every step. At night, he encounters a secret assassin hired by his direct descendants. During the confrontation at the clan hall, the family granary is mysteriously stolen. The key witness for the escape disappears out of thin air. He directly becomes the best candidate for the direct descendants to blame the blame. A mysterious old wooden sign that the original owner guarded with his life even brought disaster to his family.
In order to avoid death, Cao Wen was forced to flee the Cao family and lived in the wilderness shrouded in the shadow of war. In an abandoned earth kiln, he encounters a seriously injured man with a mysterious origin. On one side, he is pursued by the clan guardian, and on the other side, there is an unknown transaction and sinister secret passage.
There is no golden finger blessing, only relying on a vision and reason from another world. Starting from a commoner boy at the bottom of the swamp, Cao Wen had to fight against clan strife, refugee banditry, and troubled times. The wooden sign hides dust-laden secrets, and troubled times hide countless opportunities. A concubine struggles to survive, and in the turbulent era, he earns his own path.
