Dream of the Red Chamber: The Jia Family's Castoff Son Returns as a Third-Rank General from the Start

Jia Xu was the eldest legitimate son of the main branch of the Rongguo Mansion. The year Baoyu was born, a claim about his fate prompted the Jia family to abandon him at the frontier with a single document. They assumed he had long since become a nameless corpse beyond the pass.

Years later, he returned with twenty elite guards and a document from the Ministry of War, pounding through the snow to the gates of the Rongguo Mansion! The gatekeepers tried to stop him? He forced his way in under imperial authority! Grandmother Jia tried to pressure him? “Is my name in the family register?” Lady Wang tried to evade responsibility? He settled the blood debt in front of everyone!

While the Jia family was still scheming over noble titles within its inner quarters, an imperial decree arrived from the palace: “Appointed Third-Rank General of Might and Valor by imperial command. Present yourself before the emperor at once!”

But this was only the beginning. He established an iron cavalry in black armor, opened workshops for science and engineering, and used repeating crossbows to crush the northern barbarians! He took charge of the central government, purged old abuses, and brought the wealth and power of the realm under his control! The court officials trembled, and the imperial clan bowed their heads.

Years later, dragon banners flew as a new dynasty arose, its name Great Han! Beneath the Nine-Tasseled Crown in the Golden Throne Hall, Jia Xu looked down upon the kneeling members of the Jia family. “The abandoned son of years past: can he now bear the title of Ten Thousand Years?”

At the side of the great hall stood Lin Daiyu, dressed in colorful phoenix robes, shoulder to shoulder with him as they ruled the realm together! [Decisive and ruthless + iron-blooded military industry + changing the fate of Dream of the Red Chamber + ascending the throne through abdication + a powerful emperor and empress]