The Donglin Faction's Realm in the Ming Dynasty

In the thirty-fifth year of the Wanli era, a secret memorial from Taicang had already been read several times before it ever reached the Wanli Emperor. The man who had truly anticipated this was a disgraced former official in Wuxi.

His name was Gu Xiancheng. From a boy studying by a solitary lamp on a snowy night, to holding the power to appoint officials across the empire, to being driven out of the capital, he lost his official seal but held in his hands the power to judge right and wrong across the realm.