The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: the most chaotic fifty years in Chinese history.
Five emperors in three years. Within twenty years, 100,000 people were slaughtered in massacres of entire cities, three times over.
In this age of wanton killing, how can a transmigrator with no connections survive?
The answer: by sucking up to people.
This is not a book about the art of manipulation.
It is a story about staying alive.
The protagonist, Shen Ji, rises from being “two-legged mutton” to a favorite at the emperor’s side, surviving from the Five Dynasties into the Song.
Over sixty years, he proves one thing:
In this world, what keeps you alive often isn’t how strong you are, but how well you understand people.
Understand their fears, their loneliness, and the words they never say aloud.
Once you understand them, you win.
