Late Jin: My Father Is Liu Kun, and I’ll Restore Han Rule in the North

The Yongjia upheaval plunged the Central Plains into chaos. The heartland was lost, and northern tribes ran rampant. Those who refused to live as slaves crossed south with their entire clans, while iron-willed heroes stood firm in the north and fought on. In 312, Liu Qun, an ordinary graduate student, accidentally transmigrated into the body of Liu Kun’s legitimate son. Liu Kun was one of the main figures in the tale of “Rising at the Crow of the Rooster to Practice Swordplay,” and Liu Qun joined his father in fighting the surging cavalry of the northern tribes. “How could steel, tempered a hundred times, become soft as a silken cord around the fingers?” From then on, he set out on a journey, determined to change the fate of Liu Kun, the tragic hero, drive out the northern tribes, restore the Central Plains, revive the Han in the north, and rebuild China. It all began with this hard-fought battle beneath the walls of Jinyang…