A Chieftain in Troubled Times, Starting with the Pig-Cage Case

In the late Qing, many Dong villages still kept the custom of putting men and women caught in adultery into pig cages and drowning them.

By chance, Mo Shi'an saved an ill-fated couple and arrived in a Tusi city caught between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and...

Caught between the remnants of the Great Cheng Kingdom established by the Heaven and Earth Society and three Qing forces, the Tusi city struggled to survive in the cracks. It was short on supplies, had low productivity, and suffered from an extremely high rate of illiteracy when the spoiled young master Mo Shi'an arrived.

To make his life of pleasure more comfortable, he began changing the world around him, one step at a time.

In this chaotic age, human lives were worth less than grass. What path lay ahead for Mo Shi'an and his companions?

With three forces keeping each other in check and the local tribal chiefs distrustful of him, which direction would Mo Shi'an lead his people?