Xiao Rang, a third-year university student, is struck by lightning while playing Sanguosha and sent to the late Eastern Han dynasty. The moment he opens his eyes, a blade is at his throat. Ding Yuan stands before him, with Lü Bu at his side, still not having killed his adoptive father.
The System says: Adoptive Father System activated. Without an adoptive father for too long, your life force will run out.
In plain terms: if you don’t call someone Dad, you die.
So he sets off on a chaotic journey, taking one man after another as his adoptive father. Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and finally even the immortal Zuo Ci takes him in. Everyone calls him a fence-sitter. But in times of chaos, those who care about their reputation end up with weeds three feet high on their graves.
Meanwhile, Lü Bu goes from being the spy Xiao Rang first wanted to kill to the sharpest blade in his hands. One wields a halberd, the other his mouth; together they specialize in stabbing adoptive fathers in the back, a perfectly matched pair.
Later, after he masters every skill, he helps Liu Bei unify the realm ahead of schedule. When Liu Shan offers to abdicate, Xiao Rang turns around and establishes a constitutional monarchy: “You be the emperor; I’ll be president.”
Zhuge Liang survives and watches him coldly for ten years, asking just one question: “After taking so many men as your fathers, who have you ever truly acknowledged?”
Xiao Rang smiles. “The people of the Han.”
Take the wildest fathers, fight the surest battles, and live the truest life.
