A Strategist in the Three Kingdoms

Man Chong had a smooth and peaceful childhood. As he grew up, honors piled up, and he was hailed as a young genius at the research institute. But after an accident left him brain-dead, he transmigrated into the body of a boy with the same name.

Without knowing where he was or what year it was, he heard the news that Dong Zhuo had died. At the same time, a man calling himself Cao Cao came to visit.

Man Chong was shocked, then understood. This was the early Pingchu era of the Three Kingdoms, and the true beginning of the Three Kingdoms period was now underway.

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Cao Cao visited the Man household twice to recruit him as an advisor. Xun Zhicai, later regarded as the greatest strategist of the Three Kingdoms, treated him as a close friend.

Just after taking up his post, Cao Cao headed north and left him to defend Yan Province. Faced with Yuan Shu’s army, which vastly outnumbered his own, Man Chong thought that all he had wanted was to lie flat. After that, he kept straying further and further from his plans to lie flat.

“What! We’re out of food?”

Man Chong waved a hand and immediately offered his lord a plan. Food, medicinal herbs, whatever they needed, he had it all.

“What, the tools are too hard to use?”

Then improve them! Upgrade the weapons and farming tools!

“What, my lord wants to kill someone?”

Kill... Wait, what was that person’s name? The physician Hua Tuo?!

“My lord, spare him!”

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Guo Jia was an exceptional strategist, but also a carefree and amorous man. The first time Man Chong saw him, he was captivated, thinking that not only was Guo Jia’s temperament charming, but his looks were too.

Guo Jia, standing nearby, was wondering who was speaking to him when he realized the voice seemed to be coming from the thoughts of the boy in front of him.

The boy seemed to be his little fan. Guo Jia was briefly intrigued, but he never expected that fleeting interest to ensnare him.

His heart stirred, and he arranged to admire the moon with the boy. Guo Jia admired the moon and discussed poetry, while the boy lamented the suffering of the common people.

Guo Jia refused to give up, having considered himself a romantic all his life, but he kept hitting a wall with the boy. Then, when illness and injury had left him weak, seemingly on the verge of the early death history had foretold, the boy suddenly told him that he loved him.

CP: Man Chong (Man Chong) x Guo Jia

Note: Alternate history, no historical accuracy checks, and some original worldbuilding.

(Early story: building a power base. Middle and later story: farming and development.)

Coming soon: "This Isn’t How I Remember It [Investiture of the Gods]"

Miaoqing awoke in the Boundless Heaven, only for her master Hongjun to send her down to the mortal realm, where she was reborn as the Li family’s daughter in Chentang Pass.

Young Li Lingyu gazed at her childhood friend Nezha, wondering why the Li family father and son weren’t already gods, having received their titles in Heaven.

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Later, during the Investiture of the Gods calamity, the two joined forces to help Zhou overthrow Shang, and met Yang Jian, who had come on his master’s orders.

Li Lingyu was even more puzzled. Hadn’t the second son of the Yang family already attained sainthood in the flesh?

She had even met Yang Jian’s dog and his nephew.

Theme: Building a beautiful society.