King of Dian's Manor: Fighting Japanese Invaders and Xiongnu Alike

After accomplishing nothing in life, Zhuang Chaojia has no choice but to marry into the Zhu family after his grandfather dies, where he suffers one humiliation after another. Later, the female military doctor Qin Xiaoyu forcibly recruits him, and he becomes a soldier in the Expeditionary Force. After cleverly seizing the Japanese army's Nujiang defensive line, he receives no medal because of factional infighting within the Expeditionary Force. He dies in battle during the assault on Lameng Village, and his life force returns to the River of Souls. Guided by a bronze fish-head staff, he turns back time to before the attack began and hastily tells his superior where the Japanese command post in Lameng Village is. After a barrage of artillery fire, the village is captured. But factional struggles in the Nationalist Army lead to the 71st Army being replaced, with the Eighth Army assigned to spearhead the assault on Songshan. Old Zhuang is transferred to the 103rd Division as a company commander. When General He Shaozhou learns from him that the Japanese army's core position is Hill Z, he immediately orders a direct assault. The attack results in heavy casualties. When a shell explodes, Qin Xiaoyu shields Old Zhuang with her body, but he is still killed.

Old Zhuang's life force returns to the River of Souls once more. His greatest worry is what happened to Qin Xiaoyu. He must immediately turn the bell on the bronze fish-head staff and return to before the attack on Hill Z, so he can warn Qin Xiaoyu not to go near the front line.

Who could have guessed that he would ring the bell too forcefully? His life force returns to the Western Han Dynasty, 1,800 years in the past, where he becomes Chen Tang, an idle official. He meets Wang Zhaojun and falls in love with her, but Emperor Yuan of Han sends her far away to marry into the Xiongnu. After enduring a series of bloody trials, he leads an army on a lightning raid and beheads Zhizhi Chanyu. But after the court officials oppose him, Chen Tang is exiled to the frontier. Remembering Songshan, 1,800 years in the future, Chen Tang decides to return…