The Xia Dynasty has been peaceful for three hundred years. Under the glory of the prosperous age, there are many devastations such as the decay of the gentry, the dereliction of the border defense, and the decline of the people's livelihood. A destined disaster that will overwhelm the country has been quietly brewing in the shadow of history.
Mu Yunqi, a young man who was stigmatized as the son of a treasonous general, struggled to wake up from a high fever in the bitter cold of the northern border where winter was approaching. No one knows that this young body carries an old soul from the apocalyptic wasteland thirty years from now.
He had witnessed the broken mountains and rivers, the decline of civilization, and witnessed the fall of the Great Xia Dynasty in despair. Now, fate gave him a chance to start again.
This time, he is no longer that helpless ant in the tide of the times.
Relying on his accurate prediction of the future direction, he will ignite the first spark of civilization on the barren fiefdom. From firing the first brick, smelting the first furnace of steel, to establishing a new school, reorganizing and strengthening the army... He worked step by step and calculated the hearts of the people.
When the whole world is sliding towards the abyss along the established trajectory, he is the only one who goes against the current.
The country and the mountains are like a board, and all living beings are like chess pieces. What he wants to play is a shocking game of chess that can turn everything around.
"I have seen this world fall, and now that I have returned, I will let this long night usher in the dawn that does not belong to it."
