A film set accident sent Lin Xu tumbling from a height and left him unconscious. When he woke up, he had become the live-in son-in-law of a bandit stronghold.
His bride knocked him out with a club, sending him from the bridal chamber to the woodshed.
The Blackwind Stronghold's young lady despised him, the second-in-command saw him as a thorn in his side, and the Wule cavalry below the mountain watched them like predators.
From the start, everything was a catastrophe, and every road led to death.
Others transmigrate into a bright future. He had to walk a knife's edge.
Fortunately, after three years as a bit-part actor, acting was the one thing he had in abundance.
He fooled the guards by playing dumb, extracted pine resin and set the woodshed ablaze, then turned the tables on Wule scouts when all hope seemed lost.
This modern man used the least "ancient" methods imaginable to carve out a path to survival in a brutal age.
When he flung the Wule men's ears and identification tokens before everyone, the people in the stronghold finally realized that the son-in-law they'd written off as useless wasn't quite what they had thought.
A chaotic age was coming, and fires of war were spreading along the border.
A man who could dance on a knife's edge would never be content just to survive.
See how a good-for-nothing young debt holder raises the banner of rebellion and builds his own empire amid a year of disaster, as heroes vie for supremacy and the land is engulfed in war!
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