Surviving in a Chaotic World: Finding a Way

While studying the New Book of Tang, history graduate student Xie Qingyi unexpectedly transmigrates to the late Tang, in the second year of Tianfu (902). She finds herself in the body of a scholar from Yangzhou whose family has been destroyed. Zhu Wen holds the emperor hostage to control the regional warlords, the empire is in turmoil, and military governors are at war with one another. Disguised as a man, Xie Qingyi struggles to survive in this chaotic age. She travels west from Yangzhou to Chang'an, where she meets Murong Chu, a wandering warrior, and Li Wan'er, daughter of the family of the Fengxiang military governor. Before long, she is caught up in the power struggle between Zhu Wen and Li Maozhen of Fengxiang. Drawing on her modern knowledge of history and deep understanding of the late Tang, she grows from a scholar unable to defend herself into an intelligence clerk in the Fengxiang military governor's office. Carefully advancing her pieces in the game of power, she ultimately finds her own place and home amid the chaos.