Yi Yun was just an ordinary college student before an accident during a mountain-climbing trip threw his life completely off course.
By the time he regains his bearings, modern society is nowhere to be found.
The place he arrives in is poor, harsh, and unforgiving. Most people spend their entire lives worrying about food, winter supplies, and whether their families can survive another year. Villages are isolated, travel is dangerous, and a bad harvest can be enough to ruin countless lives. Compared to the conveniences of Earth, the gap is almost difficult to accept.
Unfortunately, Yi Yun doesn’t arrive as some young master or talented genius.
The body he inherits belongs to a sickly teenager living with his sister on the edge of survival. The two barely have enough to eat, possess no influence worth mentioning, and are surrounded by people struggling with the same hardships. Before thinking about power, adventure, or anything else, Yi Yun has to figure out how to live in a place where even the next meal isn’t guaranteed.
Most villagers rarely travel farther than the neighboring villages, so usually news from outside spreads rather quickly whenever a merchant caravan arrives. And conversations about famous warriors, wealthy clans, and conflicts in distant regions often become the evening’s main topic. Yi Yun listens more carefully than most. After all, he has little interest in spending the rest of his life worrying about winter food stores and next year’s harvest.
The only thing Yi Yun brought with him from the accident is a strange purple crystal whose purpose remains unclear. Most of the time he treats it as little more than an oddity, especially since everyday life leaves him with enough problems already.
Still, opportunities and troubles rarely announce themselves beforehand.
And for someone trying to survive in an unfamiliar world, even a small advantage can end up changing far more than expected.
