Qianmo Dingding

The protagonist, Jiang Wansheng, is a failed scholar in troubled times. He avoids the troubles in the countryside and makes his fortune by farming and hoarding grain. He deals with the gentry, the government, and the separatist princes. He uses the people's livelihood and food as a bargaining chip to play tricks. He does not like killing and killing, and follows the path of balancing farming and warfare. The heroine Lin Qingxuan is the daughter of a declining farming and educational family. She has been familiar with herbal medicine seedlings, spinning and weaving, and caring for women and children since she was a child. She has a gentle and transparent personality, empathizes with the weak at the bottom, and does not like power struggles. Sharing hardships with the male protagonist throughout the whole process, taking care of the house of the settlement, comforting the old, weak, women and children, is the only spiritual sustenance of the male protagonist.