He woke up in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with only a broken spear in his hand. He went from defeated soldiers to famous generals, from chess pieces to chess players. Drilling culverts, climbing over low walls, and hacking down city gates, he spent twenty years guarding the country for a dead emperor. In the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, power and intrigue were rampant, and his only belief was to fulfill a promise.
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An ordinary person's journey of rebirth at the end of the Five Dynasties is a bit dull, but the narrative is complete and overall good.
An ordinary person's journey of rebirth at the end of the Five Dynasties is a bit dull, but the narrative is complete and overall good.