After transmigrating to Great Zhou, Chen Guyu became a strong but simple-minded young man in a chaotic age of famine.
The imperial court issued a strict decree: if a married woman failed to bear a child within a year, the grain tax on her entire family would triple. If they could not pay, the women would be forced into military brothels, and the men drafted into the death squad battalions.
His elder brother and sister-in-law were nearing their first wedding anniversary, but his brother had been crippled by an injury to his lower body on the battlefield.
The family's only way to survive was to find someone to father a child.
But nobody told him about this plan.
Chen Guyu scratched his head, feeling that something had been strange at home lately.
Why did his brother keep avoiding him?
Why was his sister-in-law wearing less and less, and always coming over to him?
After transmigrating and awakening a System, the simple-minded young man gradually began to catch on.
Divination and Foresight: A hundred-kilogram wild boar froze to death in the snow. Bend down and it's yours.
Read the Winds and Know the Heart: Why couldn't he understand a single thing his sister-in-law was thinking?
Transforming the Ordinary: Turn common meat into spirit cuisine, and a broken bow into a divine weapon.
Once a day, defy fate and change your destiny!
In this chaotic age of famine, the people sold their sons and daughters for a handful of coarse rice.
Only the Chen family had meat and grain filling their storehouses, drawing in refugees and winning people's hearts.
While others struggled to survive, he defied fate, raised his destiny rank, and forged a mighty body.
War fires blazed everywhere as heroes contended for supremacy.
From a wandering refugee to a regional overlord, he rose through twelve destiny ranks and became a true ruler.
But the first problem on his path to supremacy was this:
His sister-in-law had brought him a basin of foot-washing water again tonight. Should he let her stay?
[Historical Fantasy + System Power Fantasy + Rise During Famine + Farming in a Chaotic Age + Fight for Supremacy]
I have a plan: find several beautiful wives to be my elder brothers, and then I'll have a bunch of sisters-in-law.
This new book is a real gem; I grabbed it as soon as I saw it.
The atmosphere of famine is well-created, and the character portrayals are also quite good.