"The common people here are not simple, they are cunning, greedy, and tyrannical." "The nobles here are not noble, they are selfish, arrogant, and insidious." "I used to be angry about this, but now I pity them. This is a dark world. They have not had the opportunity to choose another life since they were born. Now it is my turn to give it to them." "I will bring them food and clothing, so that they will have morals. I will bring them comfort, so that they will have faith. I am a traveler from a distant alien world, and I will bring the fire of civilization to this dark barbarian world.

In the year 1838 of the First Emperor's calendar, the Tianyuan War ended. A man, having just traveled through time and space and been forced to fight for six years, cast aside his great sword and, with a broken heart and a sense of loss, staggered away from the devastated battlefield, wanting to see this strange and mysterious world. Our story begins two years after he regained his freedom. However, he discovered that things were not so simple. Those six years of iron and fire had already entangled him with the fate of this new world: the reforming Han Dynasty, the covetous Western powers, the warriors wielding imperial weapons, and the mechanical guns of [His Highness the Scholar]