A Guide to Surviving in Troubled Times

The day before she was to be taken as a concubine by a sixty-year-old marquis,

Xin Le clutched the wooden pendant around her neck, slung a simple pack over her shoulders, and stepped alone into the vast night.

The Jin'an Kingdom was on the brink of collapse. Lords across the land had raised rebellions, and the age was mired in chaos. With famine upon them, anyone who ventured out faced almost certain death.

Xin Le knew that, but she was going anyway.

She had to find someone and return what belonged to him.

She didn't know where he was, but she only had to head north.

Xin Le feared nothing.

She had traveled from the modern era to ancient times, and gone from a well-behaved girl to a burden. She had made it through ten years alone in this backward age. If she gritted her teeth, she could last another ten.

She feared death, but she feared even more that, when she met her parents in the afterlife, she wouldn't even have the courage to recognize them.

Many, many years later, when they met again, Xin Le really didn't recognize them.

The mom and dad she remembered shouldn't be this... unhinged, right?

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Xin Yun and Ran Xiuyuan were childhood sweethearts, sworn enemies, and husband and wife.

They had known each other for thirty years, and had become so much a part of each other that they could never be separated.

After an accident took the life of their five-year-old daughter, they could no longer face each other. After nearly a year of accusations, blame-shifting, and arguments, they decided to set each other free.

But on the way to the Civil Affairs Bureau, they got into a car accident.

When the couple opened their eyes, they found themselves transported to a war-torn age of famine. People chewed tree bark, cats, and rats, ate clay, and even traded children for food...

Everything was utterly horrifying.

With survival at stake, nothing else mattered. The couple looked at each other and made peace.

Their first step was to lead the original body's family, a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people, away from the bandits glaring at them right in front of them.

Using their modern knowledge, they found water and traded for food, struggling to survive among refugees as hungry as wolves. In the end, they even found their poor child again.

The couple immediately sprang into action.

Recruiting soldiers, buying horses, waging war...

Starting out as refugees, they were determined to give their child a peaceful and prosperous age.

Theme: Love and hope can overcome anything