With My Grandmother as the Sheng Estate's Trusted Retainer, I Strike Out Alone to the Border and Win a Marquisate

Everyone knows of the Sheng family's splendor and the refined elegance of Bianliang's great families.

But no one knows that an old servant who loyally served Old Madam Sheng for half her life returned to the countryside and raised a poor-born boy.

Lu Chen grew up in the countryside, poor from childhood, witnessing harsh officials oppress the people and the fickleness of the world.

His grandmother lived her whole life by her principles and warned him not to seek out the rich or rely on old ties.

In a year of famine, with no way out and no path to survival,

he abandoned farming and left his homeland, joining the army at seventeen as a commoner.

The Song dynasty was rotten with excess troops, borderlands were aflame with war, hereditary nobility held sway, and poor-born commoners had no hope of rising.

He started out as a cannon-fodder foot soldier at the very bottom, surviving a hundred bloody battles against the odds.

While the Sheng children were trapped in the inner chambers, bound by marriage arrangements,

while Gu Tingye weathered the feuds of the nobility,

while Qi Heng was constrained by the rules of the great families,

Lu Chen, born in the countryside, had already trampled through the mud and cut down every enemy,

standing guard over thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in his bloodstained commoner's armor, his name striking fear into the Song court.

Once hidden in the Sheng household, he would become a general known throughout the land.