In a Chaotic Era: From Commoner to Emperor

Another world + history + political intrigue + strategists + alternate history

In the eighth year of Anping under the Great Yan dynasty, the third year of a severe drought, the fields yielded nothing. Yet the court raised taxes instead of lowering them, leaving the people destitute and sparking uprisings across the land.

In a roadside pavilion on the southwestern frontier of Yizhou, Han An, once timid and meek, was bullied by the village head and suddenly struck back, killing him.

“Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs? Then I’ll defy Heaven itself!”