A Low-Ranking Magistrate in Turbulent Times

In the final years of the Great Yong dynasty, imperial power crumbled, warlords carved up the land, bandits rose everywhere, thousands of miles turned to scorched earth, and the people were driven from their homes.

Chen Fan, a modern-day office worker, transmigrates overnight into the body of a destitute young man in Qingxi County on the frontier, with no parents and not a penny to his name.

No golden finger, no peerless martial arts, no powerful family to rely on. He opens his eyes to a desperate situation: bandits from the western mountains are closing in, the walls of the isolated city are crumbling, the county government is feeble, and the people live in constant fear.

There is nowhere to run, and surrender means certain death.

To stay alive, and more importantly, to protect the people of this isolated city, Chen Fan gives up merely scraping by and joins the county government. Starting out as a temporary local militia recruit, he uses his modern knowledge and foresight to improve the city's defenses, train the militia, settle refugees, and promote farming.

He defeats bandits, stamps out lawlessness, purges corrupt parasites from the county government, and secures the peace;

he stockpiles provisions, repairs fortifications, fosters mutually beneficial trade and agriculture, and rallies the people amid the chaos.

From an unknown militia recruit, to county commandant, and then to the deputy magistrate in charge of an entire county, he makes the isolated city his foundation and the people's support his blade, advancing carefully through the cracks of a turbulent age.

He neither courts the powerful nor attaches himself to warlords. With nothing but fervor and hard work, he protects the peace of one city and gathers heroes from every direction. In time, this minor frontier official grows into a regional lord who protects millions of common people, quells the flames of war on every front, and brings order to a chaotic world!