Spring and Autumn of the Northern Commandery

Not a power fantasy + dual male leads + ensemble cast + respect for historical facts + war among the heroes

In the third year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin dynasty, the land of China was divided and in turmoil.

Yao Xing of the Later Qin captured Luoyang and declared himself Heavenly King. Murong De of the Southern Yan made Guanggu his capital, while Tuoba Gui of the Northern Wei occupied Huatai... The warring states fought without end. In the south, the Eastern Jin was beset by aristocratic clans, regional military governors, refugees, and a rebellion about to land from across the sea, leaving it on the brink of collapse.

Sixteen years had passed since the Battle of Fei River. Though the old friends were gone, the Beifu Army, which had once defeated an army of eight hundred thousand with only eighty thousand troops, still remained, reduced to a bargaining chip in the power struggles between aristocratic clans.

The aristocrats in Jiankang still chatted about metaphysics. But no one knew that at a wharf outside Jingkou, a straw sandal maker named Liu Jinu would become the founding emperor of the Southern Dynasties twenty years later. And no one could have known that a poor commoner who had transmigrated from the twenty-first century would enter the game and stir up the winds of change.