The recently completed period novel Nine Zeroes: Flowers Amid Thorns. The blurb appears at the end.
Long Zaiye is the top assassin in a certain assassination organization. He joined when he was ten years old.
Believing he was carrying out Heaven's will and upholding justice, he accidentally discovers that he and his subordinates are nothing more than weapons serving someone else's political interests. So he leads his team away from the organization.
But the escape costs his entire team their lives. He is the only one left, wandering the world and evading pursuit.
During a battle of wits with the organization, Long Zaiye accidentally enters a rift in time and space and falls into a backward feudal nation called Zhong Song.
The first half of his life has left him tired of distinguishing right from wrong, good from evil. For the rest of his life, he only wants to be free and live as he pleases, carried along by the wind...
But can someone who once possessed a powerful sense of justice and responsibility really let go of what he has stood for?
Can someone who enjoyed the ultimate in material and spiritual comforts in the twenty-first century lie low for long amid all that backwardness?
So, watch him slowly change everything!
But the arrival of a stranger from afar makes everything unpredictable...
And the mysterious Taiqing Kingdom begins to reveal itself, bit by bit.
Blurb for Nine Zeroes: Flowers Amid Thorns:
I know this is a good story! So I want to tell it to you slowly.
Starting life over, with thorns everywhere.
This is the story of an ordinary person who is reborn by accident.
Watch a young girl carve out her own future with nothing but her bare hands.
Yang Xiaolian, nearly forty, is unexpectedly reborn into her elementary school years, when none of her regrets have yet come to pass.
Her beloved grandfather has not yet suffered a sudden illness and died without treatment, leaving only sorrow behind.
Her honest, quiet parents have not yet spent their lives working themselves to the bone, ending up penniless and sick.
The town's unprecedented boom has not yet begun.
The Yangs are a poor farming family in the hilly countryside of the south. They share the local values, favoring boys over girls, but also have ambitions unlike those of their neighbors: to improve the family's standing and make something of themselves.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were the peak years of the family-planning policy. The Yangs' eldest son had three girls in a row. Not only was he fined a huge amount in social maintenance fees, he also lost his job and had to return home to farm.
With strict grandparents above them, hardworking parents who turn a blind eye, and a clever, adorable male cousin below them for comparison...
The three girls in the Yangs' eldest branch live every day hungry, cold, and on edge.
As the middle of the three sisters, Yang Xiaolian was almost sent away at birth. Looking at her thin arms and legs, she understands once again that people with no standing have no voice. All she can do is pin her hopes of escape on her parents, who are still in their prime.
First, work and save money. Then set up a small stall, start a little business, and get a share of the great boom. In the future, they could become millionaires, even multimillionaires...
But who would listen to a child?
They don't dare, don't want to, and don't believe it. Old farmers believe only in the results of sweat and hard work.
A frog in warm water thinks everything is just fine.
Only when all the injustice and suffering come crashing into view do people think of changing things.
But by then, will it still be in time?
The hard forty years of her previous life constantly spur Yang Xiaolian on, driving her forward.
In this life, she too may crave a little warmth and settle for comfort, but fortunately, reality keeps warning her.
She works hard to change her family, her friends, and her surroundings, while also improving herself.
One day, after all the tears and pain along the way, they will each be reborn in their own way.
Along the way, there are friends, enemies, those who look on coldly, and those who lend a helping hand.
Along the way, Yang Xiaolian helps others, turns a blind eye to injustice, succeeds and fails, and ultimately understands the meaning of life.
Nothing happens overnight. You alone are the savior of your own life.
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