My name is Zhang Meng. I had more than enough of the rat race in my past life. This time, I’ve been reborn as a low-ranking soldier on the border, and even lucked into a widowed sister-in-law.
Someone stole my brother’s military honors?
I sent him to meet his maker that very night.
Along the way, I rescued a raw recruit.
He became my lackey, and together we opened illegal mines and smelted copper on the sly. Three years later, we’d built a private cavalry force beyond the frontier.
All we had to do was wait for the First Emperor to die, then I’d flip the table and go independent!
But when the imperial edict arrived, my lackey suddenly fell to his knees, tears in his eyes as he tugged at my trouser leg.
“Big brother… my father says I have to die, but I don’t want to…”
“You’re Fusu? That poor fool from the history books who obediently slit his own throat?”
I laughed in disbelief, hauled him up onto the city wall, and pointed at the sea of steel flooding the ground below.
“Look! These are the thugs I raised for you… I mean, your cavalry!”
“Listen up. Fate of Heaven? From now on, fate is in the hands gripping my saber.”
