Jia Ye, the least-favored illegitimate son of the Rongguo Mansion, is forced into a broken engagement and dies full of resentment. When he opens his eyes again, he has become a transmigrator with a modern soul, and is bound to an incredible System.
Five Animal Frolics, Marrow-Cleansing Pills, the Flying Dragon Cloud-Seeking Hand... Overnight, the sickly weakling becomes a master. Break off the engagement? No, he accepts the marriage alliance and weds a fierce daughter of a military family. Take the imperial examinations? No, he lays down his brush and joins the army, leading three thousand Snow Dragon Cavalry to storm Tianlei Stronghold.
At court, he refuses the emperor's offer of the eldest princess's hand in marriage: “With the nine frontiers still unconquered, how can I think of starting a family?” On the training grounds, he knocks the wife of a cavalry general flying with one palm strike, and no one dares stop him. He maneuvers in the business world, using Twilight Cloud Silk to lure his enemies into a trap; he puts his household in order, and his iron cavalry tramples the Rongguo Mansion's hollow respectability into dust.
When the emperor himself beats the war drums, and a hundred thousand Iron Pagoda troops follow him north to Liaodong, everyone finally understands: he has become the backbone of the Jia family, and this decaying dynasty must find a new way to live.
The sharpest thing in this world is not a blade or a spear, but the human heart. And he intends to be the one wielding the knife.
