Dragon Emperor of the Sword Dao

[Feel-good power fantasy, no System, passionate harem]

The sun rose, its rays streaming into a shabby little house. The sunlight was so bright that the boy lying on the bed squinted. Chu Chen instinctively raised a hand to shield his eyes. After a while, he slowly climbed out of bed, washed up, then picked up the broom inside and started sweeping the courtyard.

Ten years ago, an invading army attacked. His grandfather, the general who guarded the nation, led his troops out to meet them. Worried about leaving Chu Chen alone with the family, he brought him along. Chu Chen was only five at the time. While playing around in the army camp, he was captured by the enemy and held as a hostage. Chu Xiong, the great general who guarded the nation and Chu Chen's grandfather, saved him by giving his own life in exchange. In the end, Chu Xiong was taken prisoner by the enemy kingdom, and his fate was unknown.

After Chu Chen returned to the Chu family, they insulted him day and night, saying he had caused the death of the family patriarch and cost the entire Xuan Yu Dynasty a great general who guarded the nation. Though they never officially cast him out, the Chu family gave him a dilapidated house at the farthest edge of the estate. From then on, he lived in that shabby courtyard. The roof leaked whenever the rainy season came, and in winter snow blew all through the house. It was hard to imagine how he had survived.