The Village Guardian at the End of the Ming Dynasty

During the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty, natural and man-made disasters struck one after another: abnormal weather during the Little Ice Age, droughts, locust plagues, and epidemics. The court imposed exorbitant taxes and levies, the land was gripped by severe drought, refugees rose up everywhere, the Later Jin (Qing) watched hungrily from the sidelines, and society was in turmoil as the people struggled to survive. Jiang Yang, a modern man whose soul transmigrates, becomes a poor live-in son-in-law in Liu Village, somewhere in northern Shaanxi or Shanxi at the end of the Ming dynasty. He is resilient, responsible, and kind without being a pushover, shrewd at heart, and pretends to be honest and simple on the outside...