When he wakes up, Yun Yi discovers he is being punished in the ancestral hall of the Hengxuan Marquis’s estate, all because he is a live-in son-in-law who secretly tried to run away from his wedding.
His escape failed, and now he’s under house arrest, with soldiers surrounding the courtyard. He wants to go home, but his maternal aunt personally arranged for him to marry into the family.
Faced with this situation, Yun Yi can only rely on his daily intelligence reports, sipping tea, walking his dog, and playing with his birds as he enjoys each day at his leisure.
Until many years later...
When barbarians from all directions invade, the nation falls, families are destroyed, and the land is shattered, the female general Mo Muyun is ready to give her life for her country and fight with all she has. But Yun Yi merely waves his feather fan, and with a few words and a laugh, the enemy is wiped out.
Only then do the people realize that a sage will appear once every five hundred years, bringing peace and prosperity to the world.
Having read 50 chapters, I can say there are no awful relatives, no mindless NPCs seeking to be slapped in the face, no villains who are evil for the sake of evil, no emperors and princes clinging to the protagonist, and no saintly protagonist recklessly working for the emperor for the people. There's so much to say, but anyway, a veteran reader recommends it—the plot isn't clichéd; it's fresh. The chapters after 70 are quite weak.
The writing is fluent and natural, and the perspective is fresh. Excellent!