Embers Of The Nine Provinces (74 episodes)
Time travel is no ordinary affair, but a journey fraught with deadly traps at every step. Profitable trades like brewing wine, making ice, and refining fine…
Time travel is no ordinary affair, but a journey fraught with deadly traps at every step. Profitable trades like brewing wine, making ice, and refining fine salt are all tied to political interests — you either become someone else's blade, or you hold a sharp blade yourself. Waking up in a mud-brick house, Xiao Chen realizes he has traveled through time. Just arrived, he faces the county's conscription of strong men, and though not yet of age, he is pushed by his own family to take another's place. As the old saying goes, a dynasty that passes three hundred years will not pass five hundred. The Qian Kingdom, after 271 years, is terminally ill: barbarians eye it covetously from without, scholar clans control the court from within, and powerful vassal kings each command their own troops and submit to no one. When chaotic times come, the new emperor must rise from the ranks.