Yongming Qingtan: a Life and Death Game with Genealogy

In the eighth year of Yongming Dynasty in the Southern Qi Dynasty, Chen Yan, a doctoral student in the history department, accidentally traveled through time and became Cui Yan, a descendant of the Qingzhou branch of the Cui family in Qinghe. At that time, the barriers between the northern and southern gentry were tight. The Cui family of Qinghe, as the head of the "Four Northern Surnames", was the key for the Southern Qi royal family to check and balance the Langya Wang family. The family was also divided into the Luoyang direct line and the Qingzhou branch due to the "eldest son inheritance system", creating a turbulent undercurrent.​ Chen Yan, who has no memory, no connections, and no noble skills, faces a life and death test as soon as he wakes up - he must pass the genealogy verification sent by the direct descendants of Luoyang within three months, otherwise he will be exiled to Lingnan as a "person pretending to be a surname". In Jiankang City, the Langya Wang family secretly investigated the loopholes in his identity; the verification revealed that Cui Jingxian was a key figure in the "genealogy tampering case" studied in his previous life, and he was extremely demanding on details.​ In order to get out of the predicament, Chen Yan relied on his knowledge of genealogy to find a way out, disguised himself as a scholar from a poor family, entered the symposium, and reached a cooperation with the Southern Qi Dian Shen Yue. Later, he was forced to flee Jiankang and went to Qingzhou to trace the secrets of his family. However, he was involved in the Cui family salt field dispute and the secret war between the northern and southern forces. He accidentally discovered the secret connection between the family and the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty.​ In the end, at the Royal Banquet on the Double Ninth Festival, Chen Yan exposed the truth about Cui Jingxian's tampering with the genealogy through a duel, successfully retained his identity, and promoted the reform of the genealogical system of the Southern Qi Dynasty. However, the salt fields of Qingzhou were infiltrated by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Shen Yue had differences with the royal family. An invitation to Luoyang from Emperor Xiaowen pushed him into a larger confrontation between the north and the south. A game about the integration of noble families and the direction of the world has just begun.