On a mass grave, Chen Xuan wakes up choking on a moldy biscuit. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the hell of a refugee camp in the third year of Zhenguan.
His popularity score is minus one hundred, and the System gives him only three days to live.
But he realizes that what this world lacks most isn’t food. It’s human dignity.
The steamed buns rich men toss to their dogs are fought over by refugees;
A three-year-old child goes missing, only to be eaten by his own countrymen.
Chen Xuan draws his blade and lays down the law: “Anyone who eats people dies!”
He leads the refugees in digging wells, identifying wild vegetables, and building a platform for public trials. He even drives off the officials by citing the laws of the Tang dynasty.
A jade pendant belonging to a maid at the county magistrate’s residence leads to an astonishing ledger revealing that three thousand dan of grain have been secretly stashed in the granary.
As Lord Zhao’s carriage rolls over the starving dead and the magistrate’s lackeys brandish their iron rulers, Chen Xuan clutches the evidence against them.
He’ll make this cannibalistic world taste what it’s like to be devoured in turn.
Three days later, Huazhou is shaken to its core.
