[Transmigration and a Comeback], [An Lushan Rebellion], [From Humble Origins to Emperor], [Hardcore Political Intrigue], [A Lament for the Late Tang], [From Refugee to Founding Emperor]
In the fifteenth year of the Tianbao era, Tong Pass fell, and the glorious Tang dynasty collapsed.
Li Huan, a graduate student in history, woke up not as a strategist directing the fate of the realm or a mighty general saving the empire from ruin, but crawling out of a heap of corpses beside a road in Shanzhou. His mother and younger sister were all he had left.
Ahead, rebel cavalry burned, looted, and kidnapped. Behind them, routed soldiers and bandits swept through like locusts. The bark had all been stripped from the trees, and dirt could barely fill a stomach. Parents trading children to eat was no longer just something he had read in books. The eight-year course of the An Lushan Rebellion that he knew so well seemed laughably pale beside the hunger, cold, and death he now experienced firsthand.
Survive. First, just survive!
Dragging his mother and sister along, he struggled forward through the ruins of a fallen golden age like a wild dog.
Knowledge could help him predict the general course of events, but it could not put rice in tomorrow's pot. He knew Guo Ziyi would restore the Tang, but had no idea whether he himself would live to see it.
This is a struggle to survive in the darkest crevices of history's torrent. No System, no golden finger, only the instinct to stay alive and a heart that refuses to surrender to the darkness.
When civilization's finery is torn to shreds, baring blood-red fangs, how can a transmigrator who knows the ending find his place in a chaotic age? Should he go with the flow and cling to life, or... carve another path through the blood and fire of the times?
Watch as a modern soul redefines survival and dignity in a world falling apart.
The ideas are coherent and thoughtful, the narrative is clear, consistent with history, the writing is sophisticated, and the novel is well written.
Nice and worth reading!
The plot is normal, but the age, character, and promotion do not match well.