An ordinary soul transmigrates back to Harbin in Northeast China in 1931, at a time when the nation and its people are facing an existential crisis. With the invaders closing in, the front line moves steadily south. Looking at his ravaged country, Hao Meng declares that since Heaven has brought him to this era, he must do something for his country and its people. ...Years later, Hao Meng looks back: mountains and passes stretch endlessly, smoke from warfires fills the skies, and countless comrades have been buried in foreign lands over the past fourteen years.