The Embers of the Yellow Turbans

In the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept across Julu, and the Han dynasty stood on the brink of collapse. Zhang Yi, an ordinary modern office worker, transmigrates into this age of chaos. By chance, the three Zhang brothers obtain the Heavenly Book, the Taiping Jing, but each chooses a different path. They fail to save the world and instead unleash chaos across the land. The book is divided into three volumes: Heaven, Earth, and Man. It contains supreme arts for healing the sick and bringing peace to the people, military strategy and political intrigue, and governing and founding a state. Written exclusively in simplified Chinese, it can be read in its entirety by Zhang Yi alone. Zhang Jiao's benevolence leads the world astray, Zhang Liang's tyranny plunges it into chaos, and Zhang Bao's greed and extravagance corrupt the government. The three volumes are scattered across the land, giving rise to Jia Xu's poisonous schemes, Guo Jia's brilliant stratagems, Liu Bei's benevolence, Lü Bu's bravery, and Cao Cao's dominance, secretly reshaping the course of the Three Kingdoms. Zhang Yi, an ordinary modern office worker, is unexpectedly caught up in this age of turmoil. With the sole chance to decipher the Heavenly Book in his hands, he is swept into the conflict between the Yellow Turbans and the Han court. Driven by a dual obsession with returning home and saving the world, Zhang Yi accepts Zhang Jiao's dying request to care for his heirs. Carrying the Heavenly Volume, he establishes himself amid the chaos and makes his name with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. He recruits renowned generals, builds an intelligence network, allies with powerful clans, lays the foundations of his cause, and gathers all three volumes of the Heavenly Book. Bound to both the Yellow Turbans and the Han court, and carrying two unspoken affections, he steadily lays his plans in a world at war. He will neither replace nor usurp the Han. He will use only the Yellow Turbans' dying embers to sweep away the tyrants of the age and correct the mistaken paths of the Heavenly Book, ultimately supporting the Han dynasty through the way of the Yellow Turbans. Once his mission is complete, he will seek no royal power, only to bring love to fruition amid the chaos, fulfilling a singular destiny as the one who helped the Han survive the age of turmoil.