A modern office worker wakes up in the late Sui dynasty, his soul in the body of a powerless second son of a duke!
From the start, all he has is a bowl of wild vegetable porridge. He’s so hungry he sees stars, but luckily, he gets bound to a System for surviving in troubled times!
[Ding! Chop firewood to earn pork jerky and cola!]
[Ding! Grow sweet potatoes to earn strong liquor and a medicated bath recipe!]
[Ding! Comfort displaced refugees to earn hardtack and beer!]
While everyone else is starving and chewing tree bark, he has snacks at every meal. With instant noodles and beef jerky, he somehow lives like royalty in the middle of a famine!
He grows sweet potatoes that yield a thousand jin per mu, and refugees flock to help reclaim wasteland;
He bribes an instructor with cigarettes, then trains in second-rate martial arts until he looks the part;
An envoy from Wagang comes to negotiate an alliance? One pack of beef jerky and a bottle of cola, and he sweet-talks them into happily heading home!
He stockpiles provisions, trains elite troops, and fills his stores with modern supplies, then sits back and waits for Li Shimin to rise!
Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin? They’ll all be brothers who grill skewers and drink beer together!
So what if the late Sui is in chaos? With a System and a stash of snacks, I can still do as I please!
He grows sweet potatoes that yield a thousand jin per mu, wins over the household servants with snacks, hones his second-rate martial arts with medicated baths and System rewards, and uses his foresight to avert a refugee crisis and politely turn down Wagang’s alliance, steadily stockpiling provisions and recruiting soldiers for his family’s ducal estate.
By the time Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin’s names are known across the land, and Li Shimin’s iron cavalry has stormed Chang’an, Li Yue, with a System in hand and a stash of snacks at his side, is no longer the powerless young noble he once was. Leading a well-trained elite army and carrying beer and beef jerky, he intends not only to live well in this age of endless war, but also to…
