In the tumultuous final years of the Wu Dynasty, the world was plunged into chaos. The Jin and Liao dynasties waged war against each other, creating a volatile political landscape. Yet after a century of humiliation, the first glimmer of hope for an end to the suffering finally emerged. Figures like Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamukha, Chilawen, Mukhali, Boorchu, Borokhula, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Chong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang became central to the epic struggle between loyalists and traitors, heroes and villains. As northern cavalry swept southward, hundreds of thousands of armored horses stormed the Yanmen Pass. The nation fell, and its people endured untold sufferings—a century of national shame and resistance, marked by the tears, cries, and sorrows of those who fought first. And just before this storm broke, in the city of Jiangning, undercurrents of change were already stirring. In the midst of it all, an inconspicuous live-in son-in-law of a merchant family was irresponsibly living out his carefree existence—concerned with little more than enjoying good food and watching performances.