After transmigrating into the chaotic late Tang era, Huang Ning becomes the younger brother of Huang Chao, leader of the rebel army!
He plans to lie low until Huang Chao launches his rebellion, then coast to victory. But right after transmigrating, he beats up a corrupt official’s son and gets thrown into the death cell.
Facing the magistrate’s order to execute him at once, Huang Ning sneers. “My brother runs the Salt Gang, and he’s about to rebel. You dare lay a hand on me?”
A fellow prisoner laments that collusion between officials and merchants has made life unbearable. Huang Ning waves a hand. “Join my brother when we get out. We’ll specialize in killing crooked officials!”
“Huang Chao’s brother committed a crime in broad daylight. He must be beheaded!” the magistrate snarls.
Huang Ning turns the tables, pulling out the Tang Code and face-slapping him with it. “The new emperor has granted a general amnesty. Who do you think you are?”
When Huang Chao and his Salt Gang brothers storm the city gates, Huang Ning kicks the cell door open. “Big brother, it’s time we took over the government of this Tang Empire!”
Years later, Huang Ning recalls the old days and recites in the palace, “The mighty Yangtze flows east, its waves sweeping heroes away…”
