Water Margin: My Surname Is Wu, Like Wu Dalang's

On a snowy night in Yanggu County, Wu Dalang, a seller of steamed flatbreads, found a crying baby in a corner by the wall. The infant's palm had left a handprint on the wall, and the jade pendant in his arms bore a faintly engraved character: "Tian." The honest, simple Wu Dalang ignored the strangeness and resolutely took him in. "God or demon, you're still my son!"

He named the child Tiansi.

Tiansi had an astonishing appetite, and his first displays of divine strength astonished the neighbors. Wu Dalang guarded his secret and raised him on batch after batch of steamed flatbreads. When Tiansi improved the recipe and opened a chain of bakeries, he became the "Little Mengchang" of Yanggu County. When he stood up to Ximen Qing and the corrupt authorities at a tender age to protect his family, he learned what injustice meant. When he joined Liangshan and stood shoulder to shoulder with the legendary heroes, only to watch their ideal land become a stage for political scheming, he grasped the truth of power.

But this was only the beginning of the legend.

When the mystery of his birth exploded like a thunderclap, revealing that he was royal blood cast out among the common folk, and when the Jurchen cavalry trampled the land, he had to shoulder an even greater responsibility. From founding emperor to reformist monarch, from resisting foreign powers to guiding civilization, the Wu family's story rode the roar of the steam engine into the modern age, then soared aboard spaceships toward the galaxy.