What if someone were unlucky enough to return to the sixth year of the Tianqi era?
The empire is on the brink of collapse. Eunuch factions run rampant, officials scheme against one another, and the people are mired in misery.
The factional strife rages on.
Amid the misty rains of Jiangnan, talented young men still carouse, while beautiful women sing and dance.
The refugees are in rags, starving to the point of collapse.
The Later Jin cavalry in Liaodong have sharpened their blades and set their sights on all under heaven.
And just then, Zhang Jingyi dons the uniform of an imperial guard, with an embroidered spring saber at his waist.
He becomes a low-ranking Jinyiwei officer, infamous throughout the land for his cruelty and brutality.
In an unreasonable age, he becomes precisely the kind of man who has no need to reason with anyone.
