The Book of Nation and Home: From Border Soldier to Marquis Who Guards the Realm

[Multiple heroines]

The northern frontier is scarred by wind and war. For seventy years, the Northern Court’s iron cavalry has swept across grasslands and villages, leaving men as bones and women in tears.

Shen Yan transmigrates into the body of a young man from a border village, with only twenty days left before he must set off for war. The family’s grain jar is nearly empty, and his fiancée, Gu Qinghe, is saddled with high-interest debt. As he ladles out the last bowl of millet porridge, the Family and State Ledger quietly appears: it records every family whose fate he changes, and their survival becomes the measure of his growth.

When the court once again debates abandoning the frontier, Shen Yan stands atop the pass with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. His cloak snaps in the wind as his voice shakes the walls: “This land once belonged to no one. Now it has three hundred thousand people and a hundred thousand iron cavalry.”

He looks at the full-moon baby in Gu Qinghe’s arms. “And it has me, Shen Yan.”