From Nobody to Pioneer of an Empire

The male protagonist wakes up one morning, facing everything before him as real, and no longer knows which dream was a dream. Orphaned as a child, he was adopted. At five, he and his younger brother were sent by their adoptive father up a mountain to study Daoism. Ten years later, their master drove them down the mountain. Starting from obscurity, he gradually built an empire spanning half a continent. By the time the empire was established, the protagonist was already old. He still did not understand what his master had said when he sent him down the mountain after completing his training. Only when he had little time left to live did he finally understand his master's words, and he passed away peacefully. At that moment, in a modern metropolis, a doctoral student wakes up, only now realizing that he had an incredibly long dream the night before.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.