Chen Yi is poor and makes a living selling straw hats. He was born in a time of turmoil, as the nation teeters on the brink of collapse. Already wretched and with little savings, he loses everything after choosing the wrong friends, then gets beaten half to death.
That beating nearly kills him, but it also makes everything click. He doesn't want his life to fall into ruin.
"When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on someone, it first makes their heart suffer, their muscles and bones labor, and their body go hungry..."
Reciting the few famous sayings he can remember, Chen Yi's eyes light up.
"I'm going to enlist! At least I'll get something to eat in the army."
Hengshan Northern Command recruitment station.
A recruiting soldier asks, "Why do you want to enlist? What are your ambitions?"
Believing that the grander the ambition, the more likely he is to be accepted, Chen Yi thinks for a moment and says:
"I want to become emperor."
The soldier sprays tea all over the table.
Inside the commander's tent.
"Reporting, Commander. A new recruit today said he wants to become emperor. He's not bad-looking, but I'm afraid he isn't right in the head..."
Wei Ji rolls his eyes. "Just assign him somewhere. Keep him out of my sight."
A few days later.
"Reporting, Commander! That new recruit led a thousand soldiers and routed an enemy force ten thousand strong at the Yellow River!"
"What?!" Wei Ji throws open the tent flap, suddenly amused. He curls his lip. "Bring him to me."
Roguish, shameless gong x stoic, stubborn shou
[Reading Guide]
One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending, younger gong (by four years), rescue and redemption with a little angst and melodrama (this one might really linger with you~)
Set in a fictionalized late Western Jin dynasty, during the Uprising of the Five Barbarians
(Synopsis is provisional and may be revised.)
Theme: Across ten thousand miles of conquest, secure the realm at home and repel outsiders, change the dynasty, and bring peace to a troubled world.
