A Villainous Hero Rules the World

A villain is wicked; a hero is a mighty man.

In times of peace, he is a treacherous minister; in times of chaos, a ruthless overlord. In the apocalypse, he becomes the object of all the world's hopes. Such is a villainous hero.

After an accident, Chen Guodong, second officer on a large ocean-going ship, abandoned a promising future. His soul crossed a thousand years and transmigrated to the late Southern Song, when the empire was on the verge of collapse, but had yet to fall.

Ahead lay warhorses and weapons; behind him, an abyss. Yet the world was full of possibility. Watch as Chen Dexing, a villainous hero of his age, turns the tide when the nation teeters on the brink and rescues his people from a thousand years of decline...