After traveling through time and becoming a scholar in troubled times, Lin Fu had only two choices: either guard the broken house and the books and wait for the wolf army to massacre the village or die of hunger and cold; or pick up the knife and fight a narrow escape from the border army.
He chose the latter.
But the road ahead is far more dangerous than imagined: looting and banditry are rampant, and even the imperial reinforcements have become lambs to be slaughtered. Although the Xilong Guard is strong, it is deeply trapped in the dilemma of "a lonely tree cannot support itself", and there are secretly meddling forces from the royal clan behind it.
Lin Fu knew the outcome of Da Qian's death, he also knew Lang Rong's fatal weakness, and he was even more aware of the fatal contradiction between the factions in the court. But can he, on his own, fight for a different future for the border troops, the people, and himself in this troubled chess game?
