Dream of the Red Chamber: A Commoner Who Eats His Way to Lordship and High Office

A modern young man transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Yun, a distant branch of the Jia family with no money to his name, a sick mother, and a poor household. Trapped in a desperate situation from the start, he awakens an extraordinary golden finger: simply by eating, he can grow infinitely stronger and break through his limits. Just as political power struggles erupt at court and war breaks out on the borders of the Great Qian dynasty, the Jia family offers rewards to recruit its clansmen to defend the frontier, hoping to protect its direct line. Desperate to earn five hundred taels and turn his life around, Jia Yun boldly accepts a posting everyone else considers a death sentence. He leaves behind the romance and splendor of Dream of the Red Chamber and heads for the battlefield, armed with the power to grow stronger by eating. Thus begins his rise: he vows to earn a title of nobility through military service and defy fate to protect his family!