A Romantic Affair in Chang'an, a Marquisate Won Across the Western Regions

Cheng Yun, a civil engineer in scientific research, died suddenly after working all night. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Li Xiu in the sixth year of Tianbao. His father was Li Linfu, the most powerful man at court. He himself held a third-rank post and oversaw the Imperial Works Bureau. By all appearances, he was destined for a life of comfort. But Cheng Yun knew the ending in the history books by heart: after Li Linfu died, his body would be exhumed and mutilated, and his descendants stripped of their offices and exiled. He had about five years left. What could he do in five years? Save money and grain, gather people, and build trade routes. While the gates of the prime minister's residence were still open, he would carve out a way for his whole family to survive. He had his eye on the west. In the Moon Hall, Li Linfu asked, “Do you truly believe you can save the Li family?” “I can't say that I can. But if we do nothing, we can only wait to die.” Li Linfu studied him for a long moment. “You know it's impossible, yet you do it anyway?” Cheng Yun smiled. “We have to try.” Only, at this point, he still had no idea that the escape route he was planning for the Li family would cross ten thousand miles of desert and foreign kingdoms, all the way to the great sea in the far west.