How a History Student Survived the Late Han Dynasty

At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, warlords rose on every side, disasters and man-made calamities ravaged the land, and the empire was on the verge of collapse.

Everyone wanted to become a hero who could shake the world.

But once you actually transmigrate...

“Living at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, you might as well just die,” Liu Zhen couldn’t help saying.

Liu Zhen, a history graduate student who died suddenly and transmigrated, could only smile bitterly.

She had become someone never recorded in history: the child of Liu Chong of Chen State.

And she was an adopted child.

The good news: she was alive, and a descendant of the royal family.

The bad news: no System, no martial arts, and no special advantages.

Historical records say the population of the Eastern Han reached a peak of 65 million, then fell to 23 million at the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period.

Great. A survival rate of one in three, even worse than the apocalypse.

Liu Zhen had no fighting ability, and as an adopted child, she would lose her title if her identity were exposed. She was at a loss.

Was she really going to beg for survival in this war-torn, plague-ridden, famine-stricken final era of the Eastern Han, praying for that one-in-three chance of staying alive?

But she was not a person of that era.

She watched history come alive before her eyes.

What she had seen in books became reality.

The people suffered, and lives disappeared.

“I have to do something,” Liu Zhen said.

She had to do something.

But what could she do?

The future she saw held the Five Barbarians ravaging China, aristocratic clans everywhere, and people living in dire poverty...

She had never wanted merely to survive.

Her convictions had never faded, and her pride had never disappeared.

She wanted

She wanted to rebuild history amid these ruins!

She wanted to... carve out a path to survival that would defy the heavens for the countless poor people whose stories had never been recorded!

1. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, and the golden finger is relatively minor.

2. This is an emperor-making story. Marriage is a product of politics, so there will definitely be a romantic pairing.

3. Chen State really existed during the Eastern Han dynasty and was Liu Chong’s fief, a state within a state (similar to a modern autonomous region, unlike the old feudal states, since its officials were still appointed by the central government). It is not made up.

4. Before gaining control of Chen State, the female lead disguises herself as a man. After taking control of Chen State and the Eastern Han collapses into chaos, she becomes a woman again and establishes herself as a warlord.

Theme: Human will can overcome fate; rewrite the Han dynasty’s destiny