I started out as a stuttering cowherd. Nobody thought much of me, and I could barely get a sentence out.
But it didn’t matter. While others debated metaphysics and pontificated about the world, I surveyed mountains and rivers in the countryside. While scions of great families composed poems at banquets, I worked out the fate of a million soldiers in the sand.
They laughed at my stutter, so I wrote the Treatise on Crossing the Ji River and made the lords of the realm sit up and take notice!
They said my birth was lowly, so I reclaimed thousands of miles of farmland and built Wei’s granary, until they all depended on me for their food!
Later, I took up a blade. On the battlefield, no matter how heroic or brilliant an opponent might be, they would all become celebrated names on the list of states I had conquered.
My name is Deng Ai. I stammer so badly I can barely speak, yet in the end, I’ll trample an entire era beneath iron hooves and outwit it with strategy!
No System, no transmigration: this is the most authentic Three Kingdoms story!
There are no divine weapons or world-defying cultivation arts here, only a stuttering boy from a poor family, scorned by everyone.
While everyone else thinks he’s a joke, he has already committed the geography of the realm to memory and mastered the art of agricultural colonization.
With his astonishing Treatise on Crossing the Ji River, he opens the door to officialdom, fights corrupt officials and powerful clans, and uses hard work to lay the foundations for Wei’s enduring greatness.
The decade-long war of wits against Jiang Wei of Shu Han is a clash between two master strategists. Sneaking through Yinping for seven hundred miles is a breathtaking gamble in which everything is at stake!
This is the tragic epic of an ordinary man with no golden finger, who relies on talent, patience, and iron resolve to rise from a minor agricultural official to a general who brings down kingdoms in an age of rigid class divisions, only to meet a sudden and devastating end.
