Dream of the Red Chamber: From Cannon-Fodder Concubine’s Son to Conqueror of Langjuxu

Jia Qiu is the illegitimate son of the third branch of the Rongguo household in a parallel version of the Great Yuan and Dream of the Red Chamber worlds. He is also a transmigrator reborn with the memories of a modern programmer. History in this world had long since diverged: the chaos continued for generations after the Great Tang, and after the Great Yuan was founded, imperial power was constrained and the court plunged into turmoil. It was nothing like the Dream of the Red Chamber world people knew. Jia Qiu lost his father at a young age and depended on Concubine Bai, his mother, for support. With no one to rely on in the Jia household, where hierarchy was rigid and people were cold-hearted, he was looked down on and pushed around by everyone for years, living as if he were invisible. After sleeping for a month, he woke and fully merged with his memories from his previous life, shedding his old habit of silently enduring everything. To save his gravely ill mother, whose strength was spent, he stormed into the kitchen with a spear and soundly thrashed the snobbish servants, abandoning his cowardly demeanor and striking fear into the household staff. Just then, the Great Yuan suffered a crushing defeat in the north, and the court ordered each noble house with military honors to send a legitimate son to recruit soldiers and go to war. The Jia family, desperate to save their own skins, had no legitimate son from either the Rongguo or Ningguo branch willing to risk his life. After the elders schemed among themselves, Jia Qiu, with no one to stand up for him, was forcibly elevated to legitimate-son status and made the Jia family’s scapegoat. Caught between the schemes of the wealthy and the smoke of war, Jia Qiu has modern thinking and martial skills. From then on, he breaks free of his fate and begins the road to turning his fortunes around, protecting his loved ones, and making a place for himself in a chaotic age.