Cui Rong transmigrates and becomes the eldest son of the Boling Cui clan in Jizhou, the eldest young master of Situ Cui Lie.
The good news: He's born into a prestigious family, is fabulously wealthy, has a father among the Nine Ministers, and a younger brother who commands the Tiger Guards.
The bad news: It's the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. The Yellow Turban Rebellion is about to erupt, and the realm is on the brink of chaos.
Cui Rong says, “No rush. First, I'll buy myself an official post.”
So his father, Cui Lie, spends five million coins to buy him the position of Colonel Who Subdues Bandits.
On his first day reporting for duty, his superior, Lu Zhi, looks at the three or four hundred ragged “volunteers” behind him and falls silent for a long moment. “Where did you go to rob this gang of vagrants?”
Cui Rong doesn't bat an eye. “I recruited them.”
Lu Zhi: “...”
Later, Cui Rong takes Zhang He, Gao Lan, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou, four mighty warriors, and hacks his way from Julu to Qinghe, rising from an unknown nobody to the Yellow Turbans' greatest nemesis. Zhang Jue personally leads an army of a hundred thousand to “have a little chat” with him, while Lu Zhi's daughter, Lu Fuji, secretly asks in a letter when he'll come to Zhuo Commandery to ask for her hand.
Cui Rong looks at the Yellow Turban army stretching across the landscape, then feels the letter in his arms, faintly scented with fresh ink. He takes a deep breath...
“Let's fight. Once this battle's over, I've still got a wife to marry.”
[Highlights]
✓ An unconventional transmigration story: no Systems, no cultivating immortality. He relies on family, brawn, brains, and, as a bonus, his good looks.
✓ A sharp-tongued male lead x straightforward Zhao Yun x fierce Cui Yan x cunning Lu Zhi. Everyone is ruthless and never short of words.
✓ Chicken theft, taunting the enemy, killing corrupt postal inspectors, buying an official post, and wooing women: this is a Three Kingdoms story with everyday flavor.
✓ The historical timeline gets a major rewrite, but the story still makes sense, with plenty of satisfying moments and real depth.
