Records of the Troubled Times of the Five Dynasties

In 907 AD, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty. A seventeen-year-old boy from a military household was enrolled in the Ya Barracks, where new recruits could not survive more than three months. He has no golden finger, no time travel, only a knife picked up from the pile of dead people. Fifty-three years and five dynasties passed, and he stood through every strangulation. When the world finally settled down, he took off the old knife from his waist and handed it to the blacksmith on the roadside: "It's melted, let's make some sickles."