Peaceful Years: A Lone Swan in Troubled Times

Lin Fu, a graduate student of history, unexpectedly transmigrates into the chaotic Later Han era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, becoming a boy outside Chanzhou whose family has been destroyed. This is an age when "the Son of Heaven is whoever commands the strongest army." In just fifty-three years, the Central Plains changed hands five times. Regional military governors carved up the land, wars raged without end, oppressive rule and famine were constant companions, and human lives were worth less than weeds.

Armed with knowledge from a thousand years in the future and an understanding of the chaos, Lin Fu wakes to a test of life and death: gravely injured, starving, surrounded by neighbors whose lives hang by a thread and soldiers liable to break down his door at any moment. He knows that surviving in an age when human lives are as insignificant as ants, let alone daring to hope for even a hint of peace, will take far more than the rise-and-fall patterns in a history textbook.

With medicine and supplies in short supply, he uses his rudimentary first-aid knowledge to treat wounds and prevent minor illnesses. With farming methods woefully behind, he tries to improve tools and find ways to boost yields. In a lawless world, he must tread carefully amid warfare and political intrigue. From a destitute boy who wants only to protect himself, Lin Fu gradually becomes a capable man his neighbors can rely on, using what little strength he has to fight the tide of chaos.

War is about to engulf the northern lands, the regional governors harbor ambitions, and the shadow of Guo Wei's mutiny already looms nearby.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.