A Century of Ruin: The True Story of the Five Barbarians' Upheaval

The Three Kingdoms reunite under Jin, and Taikang ushers in a new era. Everyone believes the age of chaos is over and peace has finally come to the land. But they do not know that Sima Yan has been laying the groundwork all along, and will personally destroy the Han realm. He disbands the armies of the provinces, enfeoffs warlords as kings, and allows millions of non-Han peoples to settle among the Central Plains. The Eight Princes bleed the empire dry in their infighting, while Empress Jia’s misrule topples the court. In 304 AD, Liu Yuan raises an army, and the Five Barbarians’ uprising officially begins. Yongjia falls and Luoyang is massacred; Chang’an is overrun, bringing the Western Jin dynasty to an end. The Central Plains sink into chaos, human flesh is eaten across the land, and Han people endure a century of exile. The Sixteen Kingdoms take turns proclaiming emperors, while barbarian cavalry tramples every inch of the realm. These are the darkest 135 years in Chinese history. No transmigrate, no System, no whitewashing. This is an unvarnished retelling of the bloodiest, most authentic epic of the chaotic Wei and Jin era.