Youth Forged in the Fires of Beiping: A Steel Vow

Hao Nanren, a civil engineering graduate who became unemployed the moment he graduated, wakes up as Lin Huaian, a spoiled, underachieving student in Beiping in 1933.

One moment, he was worrying over resumes that had vanished into a black hole. The next, he was facing the news that the nation was in ruins and his third uncle had died, his blood staining the Great Wall.

In an age when frail scholars who abandoned their studies to enlist were hailed as passionate patriots, he swears a very different blood oath before the hero's memorial:

"I will get into a top university and save the country with knowledge!"

A spoiled good-for-nothing? The whole school mocks him for dreaming the impossible!

A weakling? He faints during a five-kilometer cross-country run and becomes a laughingstock!

Bottom of the class? He gets the lowest grade in every subject on the monthly exam, and his father furiously calls him useless!

But no one knows that his soul comes from the future, and that he is a walking "super database."

While his peers train hard with bayonets, he is already refining weapon blueprints. While others shout slogans, his "Phantom Squad" is building defenses with tactics far ahead of their time.

This is a one-sided technological assault! He will rely not on hot-blooded passion, but on hard knowledge beyond its era, forging the strongest backbone for this blood-soaked age!

Dedicated to the soldiers and civilians who took part in resisting Japanese aggression.