May the Realm Be at Peace, and May You Be Happy (Wei-Jin)

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Male Lead (tearing up): So you think I'm too young?

Female Lead (waving her hands frantically): No...

Male Lead (gazing intently): Before I transmigrated, I was already an adult.

Female Lead (nodding frantically): Yes, yes, of course.

Male Lead (with wide, puppy-dog eyes): So you like me too, right?

Female Lead (shaking her head frantically, hesitating, then nodding slightly)

Male Lead (heartbroken, hopeful, then overjoyed)

The story takes place between the end of the Eastern Jin dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song dynasty.

At this time, Liu Yu is the undisputed leading figure on this land. Born into humble circumstances, he fought on the battlefield and, in just over twenty years, unified the south and led a northern campaign into the Central Plains, eventually founding the Liu Song dynasty and building a great empire. Alas, a hero's twilight came too soon, and failing to hold on to the gains of his northern campaign remained his lifelong regret.

"Back then, with spears and armored horses, I swept across ten thousand miles like a tiger. Yuanjia's hasty campaign to seal the wolf at Mount Xu, won only a panicked retreat, looking north."

In later generations, many people imagined:

If his chief strategist, Liu Muzhi, had lived longer, if Liu Yu himself hadn't been forced to hurry back in the middle of the northern campaign, if someone had been there to defend Chang'an in place of his young son Liu Yizhen, could they have used Chang'an as a base and continued the northern campaign? Could the unification that had gradually taken root in people's hearts ever since Qin Shi Huang unified the six states have come more than a hundred years sooner?

At this time, two young people from a thousand years in the future transmigrate through time and space to witness history and change it.

One is Wang Jinzhi, a self-absorbed, chuunibyou teenager, struggling through the endless exam drills of high school and asking himself three questions every day: Do I still have to study? Is there any point in studying? Do I really have to study?

The other is Chen Luyao, a career woman who longs for an easy life but can't bring herself to lie down and do nothing. Her college entrance exam was the peak of her life, and after years of struggling in society, she feels she's achieved nothing.

In a familiar place, but an unfamiliar time, the two meet, come to understand each other, and stay by each other's side.

In an era of unending warfare, where powerful warlords rise and fall in turn, they work together, get hurt again and again, and keep growing until they finally find their own path and create a legendary life of their own.

Theme: Break through your limits and keep growing. No matter how perilous the road ahead, what is there to fear when fighting for your country and its people?