When Looking North at Huating, the Cranes Chirping

On a rainy night in the middle of the fourth century AD, Lu Chengfeng, a young history student from the 21st century, was accidentally electrocuted while sorting out ancient books. When he woke up, he was in Huating, Wu County during the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty - he became Lu Ming, the grandson of the Western Jin Dynasty writer Lu Ji. At that time, the Lu family in Wu County had long lost the glory it had during the Sun Wu period. After the brothers Lu Ji and Lu Yun died in the Eight Kings Rebellion, the descendants of the Lu family were never able to reach high positions in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Instead, it was the descendants of Lu Xun's brother Lu Hao, Lu Ye and Lu Wan, who were active in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Lu Ming's branch has long been reduced to a declining branch on the fringes of the clan's politics. They guard the few acres of thin farmland in Huating's ancestral home and struggle to survive by selling off their ancestors' old belongings. However, Lu Chengfeng brought not only historical knowledge of the 21st century - he clearly remembered the trend of clan politics in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for a century, every detail of the Battle of Feishui, and the rise and fall of the Hu tribe in the north. He also remembered that Xie Daoyun, whose reputation as "the talent of chanting xu" has been passed down through the ages, was still in his prime at this time. He wanted to spend his whole life changing the fate of the family, marrying the Xie girl, and moreover, he wanted to gain a ray of hope in this peaceful and troubled world.