I Transmigrated Back to Republican-Era China: I Eloped with My Landlord’s Fifth Concubine

My name is Fei Xiaoying, and I'm an ordinary butcher at a modern slaughterhouse. Then, in an accident, a pig shoved me into an electrified water trough. When I opened my eyes again, I had transmigrated to the Republican era, where I was now a guard in the household of Huang Tiangui, a landlord.

In this world, the rich feast behind vermilion gates while the poor freeze to death in the streets. I have the strength and skills of a butcher, but no say over my own fate.

Then I met Su Xiuer, the Fifth Concubine, a woman imprisoned in a gilded cage. She was beautiful and fragile, yet her eyes burned with a refusal to submit. Through repeated acts of secret kindness and one brush with death after another, two lonely souls found refuge in each other amid the sprawling manor.

“Xiuer, come with me. I'll get you out of this hellhole!”

Our elopement was exposed. I was tortured in a water dungeon and sentenced to execution. I survived by the skin of my teeth, all to keep a promise. From then on, the butcher took up arms in a world on the brink of change.

I became a fugitive, going from “One-Cut Fei” at the provincial capital's meat market to the “Killing God” feared throughout the underworld. I went from a brute concerned only with putting food on one person's table to a soldier who carried his country in his heart. I used my butcher's knife to break into bandit strongholds and a machine gun to fight the bayonets of the Japanese invaders.

The road ahead was ablaze with war, yet full of bloody romance. Xiuer and I weathered suspicion, separation, temptation, and death, as our love rose and fell with the times.

“Xiaoying, peace will come to this land one day. When it does, let's find a place and open a little noodle shop, all right?”

From a doomed elopement to lifelong revolutionary partners, this is the against-all-odds legend of a butcher, and a tumultuous love story spanning half a century, unforgettable to the very end.