Chen Du is the night-shift clerk at Quan Jia Convenience Store.
He takes a fall and opens his eyes again in Xiangyang, in the ninth year of the Xianchun era of the Southern Song.
This time, the Southern Song must not fall.
The convenience store’s doors open punctually at noon every day.
From inside, he brings out salt, iodine disinfectant, and stale bread; oxygen tanks, fire extinguishers, and nail guns; every glimmer of hope that has no place in this era.
But what he cannot bring back is the lives of the city’s people, the spirit of five thousand battered soldiers, or the backbone of a Han Chinese man who will never bow to another people.
Resist the Yuan, restore the Song, overthrow the Qing.
Starting from a convenience store, he sets out to establish a Ming dynasty for the Han people three hundred years ahead of schedule.
[Highlights]
- Ancient battlefields × a modern convenience store: a high-contrast struggle for survival
- From chaos and warfare to carving out a domain of his own, a carefully plotted road to supremacy
- A real historical setting paired with plausible imaginative speculation, making it an engaging read for history buffs, too
- The protagonist is decisive but not cold-blooded, intelligent and brave but not conceited. The thrills are grounded in the brutal reality of war
