Troubled Times in the Late Ming Dynasty

In the last years of Chongzhen, war broke out everywhere. A modern soul that accidentally traveled through time crashed into the body of Lin Yan, the son of the guard. However, when he opened his eyes, he faced an isolated city surrounded by rogue bandits, a wilderness full of hungry people, and the cold knife in his waist. What was reflected in the light of the knife was the bloody dusk of 1642, a microcosm of the struggle of millions of people in troubled times. He was once a bystander in the ivory tower, but now he has become a player in the shadow of swords and swords. He holds the life-saving banknote in his left hand and a rusty knife in his right hand. He is surrounded by companions with different motives: an old servant who is loyal to protect his master, an opponent with hidden agenda, and a refugee who still wants to light a fire in the mire. From the ruins of Guide Mansion to the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, from the butcher's knife of the army to the red flag of the rebel army, he stepped on broken bones and was repeatedly pulled between betrayal and redemption. Should we just drift with the tide and become the dust of the troubled times, or should we hold on to the hilt of the knife and carve a way out of the collapsing world? This is not a heroic epic, but a record of the struggles of a group of little people in troubled times: they will be hungry, afraid, and calculating, and at a certain moment, they will hand out half a piece of dry food to strangers. There is blood in the sword's light, warmth in the tears, and the faith to live will always be in the mud, stubbornly looking towards the sky. "This world is rotten, but we have to keep going - even if we kowtow every step, we still have to leave a mark in the mud."