The first year of Chongzhen, Liaodong. Houjin pressed on the border, and the frontier army could no longer hold on.
The protagonist Guan Lie was a special forces officer in his previous life. While maintaining peace in Africa, he disobeyed orders and burned down a village controlled by a warlord - which contained innocent civilians. The military court sentenced him to death for war crimes. At the last second of the injection, he traveled through time. I woke up and knelt on the execution ground in Liaodong. The knife was cutting down on other people's bodies and other people's crimes.
He knows how history will go: Yuan Chonghuan will be punished, Chongzhen will be hanged, and the Ming Dynasty will perish. But now he is a prisoner on death row and doesn't even have a decent knife.
