In the seventh year of the Guanghe era, a thunderclap shook Julu. Zhang Jiao raised his arms and cried, "The azure heaven is dead; the yellow heaven shall rise!" A million Yellow Turbans swept across the Central Plains, and the Han dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse.
With chaos looming and bones littering the roads, Chen Jingyuan opened his eyes to find himself a starving refugee boy in Jizhou, on the verge of death. Ahead, Yellow Turban rebels burned, looted, and killed. Behind him, the harsh rule of the authorities devoured the people like a tiger. There was nowhere in all the world to call home.
He had no supernatural powers to summon wind and rain, only flashes of historical insight that occasionally surfaced in his mind, and an unyielding will to survive even in the direst circumstances.
To stay alive, he temporarily joined the Yellow Turbans, seeing the suffering of the common people firsthand amid the fervor and chaos of the Way of Great Peace;
To carve out a chance at survival, he trained troops and stockpiled grain, building a haven amid the narrow gaps of a chaotic age;
To set the world right, he broke free of his shackles, vowing to "safeguard the people and quell disaster." He gathered refugees, welcomed the talented, and revitalized farming and sericulture.
When the Zhang brothers were defeated and killed, the Yellow Turban banners fell, and countless rebel forces became bands of marauders, he led the remnants he had gathered against the tide:
"The Yellow Heaven may never rise, but we must forge a way for the people to live!"
"In this chaotic age, no one's destiny is written in heaven. Peace must be won by the living!"
Watch as Chen Jingyuan rises to prominence amid the flames of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, stirring up the late Han era's stage as a nobody surrounded by powerful rivals. In the end, he will become a great leader of a chaotic age and find a path to rebirth for a shattered realm.
