The realm is on the brink of chaos, and the common people are worth no more than grass.
A famine sets off a chain of earth-shaking events!
At first, he only wanted to make it out of Qingzhou alive. Later, he wanted the people around him to survive. Then he realized that as long as the world stayed this way, even if he escaped disaster today, someone would still die by the blade tomorrow.
So a commoner took up a blade, a refugee began to gather the people, and a farmer's son crushed beneath the weight of his era finally made his way to the center of the world's game of chess.
