With Nowhere Left to Turn, I Started Out as a Bandit

In the autumn of the forty-first year of Tianwen, the Great Chu Dynasty, once a realm of immense glory, had reached its twilight after 281 years of rule.

The emperor was growing old, and the throne stood vacant, causing the princes' covert and open struggles to grow ever more vicious.

Unrelenting natural disasters, wars, and crushing taxes had stripped most of Great Chu's people of any chance to keep surviving.

After three consecutive years of natural disasters in the * Plains, tens of thousands of elite barbarian cavalry poured across the border. The flames of war blazed unchecked along the border between the barbarians and Chu.

At that very moment, a soul from the distant future crossed countless barriers of space and time, endured the trials of repeated reincarnation, and once again descended upon this pivotal moment in history.

And so the troubled times began...

Zhuangzi said, "Those who steal a hook are executed, while those who steal a state become feudal lords. The gates of the feudal lords are where benevolence and righteousness are said to reside."

Beauties and the realm, power and war, famed generals and brilliant ministers: see how the great bandit Xu Shiji uses his hands and his wits to forge the legend of an emperor for the ages!

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