Becoming a Literary Great in Russia

Transmigrated into a Russian serf? Hell from the start!

The moment modern-day science and engineering nerd Alek Li opened his eyes, he had become Aleksei, a serf at the very bottom of nineteenth-century Russia.

A home with nothing but bare walls? His father is dying of consumption, coughing up blood! The tyrannical steward hounds them day in and day out, while his lackeys threaten to take their only scrawny cow! Worse still, he has no idea where tomorrow's black bread will come from!

Knowledge is useless? I'll defy fate and change my lot!

A top-tier university brain is the ultimate golden finger! Purify dirty water to stay alive? Easy! Dig a kiln into the frozen ground, make charcoal, and trade it for food? Consider it done!

When coarse, sour black bread goes down with a few precious grains of salt, **this hardcore struggle for survival is worth it! At last, knowledge has become something you can put on the table!

He barely has time to catch his breath before a top-level crisis strikes!

Gleb, the aristocratic devil of a young master, sets his sights on his younger sister Katya as she fetches water by the river, bringing with him false poetic charm and lethal temptation. She is the “white moonlight” stubbornly growing in the mud!

“Touch my sister? I don't care what noble family you're from. Get lost!”

On one side is the charcoal industry he desperately needs to grow, his “black gold” being hard currency. On the other is an imminent battle to protect his family.

Should he lie low and build up strength, using the beginnings of an “Industrial Revolution” to secretly prepare to turn the tables?

Or should he rise up in open defiance and let the serfs' fury burn this man-eating prison to the ground?

Watch a science and engineering nerd go on a wild ride through the hell of Russia:

Kindling a spark beneath the frozen earth with scientific thinking,

Clearing a path with black gold and smashing the nobles' chains,

On the banks of the Volga, a wildfire of black flame will rise at last, and it will be his!