Chu Ling, an agricultural science graduate, opens his eyes to a brutal age of chaos.
A great famine rages, people eat one another, and the government troops are even more ruthless than the refugees.
He has no System, no cheats, only a handful of knowledge useless in the modern world: how to purify water, prevent epidemics, and identify poisonous plants.
All he wants is to survive.
He gathers scattered soldiers, orphans, and farmers, then retreats into the mountains and shuts himself away.
But the age of chaos lets no one be.
Plague sweeps across the land, powerful clans lay siege to him, and tens of thousands die because he holds back. In the face of a sea of blood, the kindness he has clung to all his life is ground to dust.
He buries his former self with his own hands.
From now on, he will be decisive and merciless, wage a bloody campaign for supremacy, overthrow the old dynasty, and remake the realm.
Even if he is steeped in guilt, understood by no one, and ascends the throne alone.
All so he can carve out a peaceful border on this scorched earth.
Very realistic and more realistic