Transmigrating to the Western Jin Dynasty to Build the Strongest Fortress

In the fifth year of Yongjia under the Western Jin, Luoyang fell, the Hu cavalry roamed unchecked, and the Central Plains descended into turmoil.

Wen Yan, a modern graduate student in history, was gathering materials on the Five Barbarians' invasion when he unexpectedly transmigrated. He became a young man from a humble family, sharing his name, in a fortified Han Chinese settlement in Bingzhou that was about to be slaughtered.

Armed with his foresight into this dark period of history and a modern way of thinking, he organized a resistance in the face of utter desperation and saved some of the settlement's people. Yet he also witnessed the brutality of the army under Shi Hu, a warlord of the Hu people, as his "family" was killed before his eyes.

Carrying a simple desire to avenge his "family" and a profound helplessness in the face of history, Wen Yan began his struggle to survive in an age of chaos.

He knew that hatred alone could not keep him alive, much less change the century of darkness that followed the Yongjia upheaval.

His impossible mission was to find a way, in an era when the blood feud between Hua and Yi was magnified beyond all measure and human lives were treated like grass, to protect those around him while keeping civilization alive.

He used modern knowledge to improve farming tools and train militia, carving out a small base, Mingyue Fort, between the rival powers. Its motto was: "Shelter those willing to uphold order, Hu or Han alike."

But the stakes were unbearably high: if he failed, not only would the people who followed him once more become "two-legged sheep," but the spark of civilization he hoped to sow, one that could rise above hatred, would be snuffed out completely.