Cold Waters of the Fen River: The Five Dynasties in a Chaotic Age

In the winter of the third year of the Kaiyun era of Later Jin, the Khitan cavalry stormed Taiyuan Prefecture.

A young man was gravely wounded during the massacre and carried to Blackwind Stronghold while unconscious. When he awoke, his hometown had been reduced to scorched earth, and the childhood friend he had grown up with was nowhere to be found.

From the fallen descendant of a prominent family to a squad leader in the Later Han army, he clung to a long spear with a white waxwood shaft, struggling to survive in the cracks of a chaotic age.

Guo Wei raised an army, the Chanzhou mutiny broke out, and Later Zhou was founded. He had no ambition to change history. He only wanted to find somewhere he could stand firm amid the boiling chaos of the Five Dynasties.

From Later Zhou to the Northern Song, from Taiyuan to Bianliang, from squad leader to military governor. He would witness the flames of the Battle of Gaoping, Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou's northern campaign, the upheaval of the Chenqiao Mutiny and the donning of the yellow robe, as well as the iron and blood of the wars of unification.

Amid the sweeping tides of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, he would be a wave that refused to go with the flow.