My Father Told Me to Give My Merits to My Younger Brother, but I Just Smiled

Ten years ago, the Great Xia Dynasty went to war with the Black Mountain Empire, and the emperor ordered a nationwide conscription.

Zhang Ruotian, Zhang Yunlan’s younger brother, was on the conscription list. Their parents feared he would get hurt, so they forced Zhang Yunlan to take his place on the battlefield.

Over the next ten years, Zhang Yunlan rose from an unknown soldier to the youngest Guardian General of the Great Xia Dynasty. He not only quelled the fighting on the Longshou Plains battlefield, but also wiped out every subversive force within the empire.

However, Zhang Yunlan made countless powerful enemies in the process.

With the war over, Great Xia no longer needs a battle-hardened god of war, and Zhang Yunlan is about to face the powerful elite’s vicious revenge.

But just then, his father suddenly comes to see him.

After questioning him, Zhang Yunlan learns that his father knows he has become the youngest Guardian General of the Great Xia Dynasty. His father wants Zhang Yunlan to hand his military merits over to his younger brother, Zhang Ruotian.

He also wants them to swap identities, so that Zhang Ruotian can become the Guardian General.

In their father’s eyes, Zhang Yunlan had taken his brother’s place in the army, so it was only right that his achievements should belong to his younger brother.

And Zhang Yunlan agrees.

A month later, Zhang Ruotian comes to see Zhang Yunlan.

He demands to know why all the powerful officials at court want him dead.

Zhang Yunlan replies, “Since you inherited my military merits and identity, naturally you also inherited all my enemies.”

His younger brother can’t accept this and demands to switch their identities back, but Zhang Yunlan just smiles.

“That won’t do. You’re Zhang Yunlan now!”