Na vida anterior, Fang Cheng foi um dos membros centrais do grupo de estrategistas de um grande senhor. Por acaso, ele atravessou o tempo e o espaço em corpo e alma, chegando à Dinastia Da Xia, tornando-se um filho ilegítimo de uma casa nobre! Ele purga os traidores, elimina oficiais corruptos, resolve injustiças e conquista o apreço do imperador, além de atrair o interesse da princesa. Navegando habilmente entre os príncipes, ele gradualmente assume o controle do poder supremo do império. E então... quase sem perceber, cria uma nova era.
“Only a fool wishes to cross worlds; whoever desires such a thing is a fool indeed.”
Fang Cheng huddled beside the campfire in the ruined temple, hungry and cold, carefully roasting a fish no bigger than his palm. He couldn’t help but mutter.
Yes, he was a transmigrant.
Once, Fang Cheng had graduated from a prestigious university and entered politics, quickly latching onto the support of a powerful alumnus. His strategic advice proved invaluable, and he soon became a core member of the elder’s think tank. But as fate would have it, his rise was as swift as his fall. When the elder sought higher office, he was ambushed and forced into ignominious retirement. Those around him were implicated.
Fang Cheng went from being a rising star to a spent wave dashed upon the shore.
He thought his life was over, resigned to obscurity, but when he awoke, he found himself in another world.
He had crossed over with his soul, and his body was restored to its teenage years—fifteen or sixteen. Worse yet, when he transmigrated, he had been asleep, clad only in underwear.
Thus he was cast into a world of ice and snow.
Heaven spared him a thread of hope. In the first days after his arrival, the cold was not so severe, and the Yongding River had not yet frozen solid. He managed to scrounge some meager warmth—hardly clothing at all—wrapping himself in rags.
But as the saying goes, clothes make the man, and tack makes the horse. Dressed as he was, Fang Cheng could not enter town; local beggars would beat him, constables would drive him out.