The Unbending: Star of Heavenly Longevity, I Turned the Tables by Shamelessness

Political intrigue + traditional Chinese aesthetics + wish fulfillment + ensemble cast + transmigration into another body + wuxia + no System

Special forces soldier Zhou Xu dies taking his enemies with him, only to wake up transmigrated into the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period as the good-for-nothing third young master of the Zhou family in Hangzhou. On his first day in this new world, he finds himself lying in a strange inn, with a mysterious woman in a red bellyband asleep beside him. Someone drugged him last night. The woman's “senior brother” bursts in to catch them in the act, and Zhou Xu can only escape in a panic by jumping out a third-floor window.

After returning home, his father, Zhou Mingyuan, gives him a black iron token, revealing a secret the Zhou family has kept hidden for decades: Zhou Xu's grandfather was actually the “Star of Heavenly Longevity” in the Tang dynasty's Bad Person organization. Now the Bad Marshal has issued a secret order, calling all Bad People to stand by and protect Li Xingyun, the last bloodline of the Li Tang imperial family, at all costs.

Zhou Xu understands that to complete his mission, he first has to grow stronger. Combining the memories of the ancient martial arts family from his previous life with the martial arts of this era, he trains day and night, rising from a good-for-nothing who couldn't even harm a chicken to a Great Star-rank martial artist in just three months.

But getting close to Li Xingyun is the biggest challenge. Zhou Xu has a sudden idea: he's a rich young master, and the one thing he has plenty of is money. And aren't drinking buddies the easiest people in the world to befriend? He carefully stages a “chance encounter,” shares drinks and laughter with Li Xingyun at a restaurant, and successfully enters his social circle.

The mission has only just begun. What Zhou Xu doesn't know is that the woman in the bellyband, her senior brother, and the various forces lurking in Hangzhou will all become entangled with him in ways he could never predict. And the biggest secret he carries, a soul from the future, will eventually stir up a storm in this chaotic age.