At the Border: From Hunter to Great General Who Guards the Nation

[Slow-paced · alternate history · power struggle]

Special forces soldier Lu Zheng transmigrates, opening his eyes as a famously useless hunter in Blackstone Village, in the northern lands of the Great Ning.

The original owner was a complete scoundrel. He squandered the fortune his father left him, indulged in drinking, whoring, gambling, and everything else, and beat the young wife he had bought day after day. At last, deep in debt and seeing red, he snatched the only silver hairpin his wife owned and drank himself to death on a millstone.

A mud-brick house bare of everything, half a bowl of watery bran porridge with wild greens floating in it, and a sixteen-year-old wife, Shen Wan'er, her cheek bruised from beatings, still clutching her bowl and trembling.

“What a beast.”

Lu Zheng spat out the words coldly. A glint of sharpness passed through his battle-hardened eyes.

Too tired to hunt? Farming too hard? That was the old him.

In the deep mountains and forests, he could hit a target from a hundred paces, hunt bears and wrestle tigers, and catch pheasants and rabbits with ease.

First make his fortune, then enlist. From borderland hunter to grand general who guards the nation, Lu Zheng sweeps all before him and fights across the land.

Smoke rises along the northern frontier; a man takes up his hook-bladed sword.

When he has made his name and earned his glory, who will dare defy him when he dons the imperial robes?