Rewriting the Book of Life and Death at Red Cliffs

Mao Dou, a history graduate student, stays up late studying the Records of the Three Kingdoms and unexpectedly time-travels. Opening his eyes, he finds himself as a cook in Cao Cao's army on the eve of the Battle of Red Cliffs! Before he can defend his master's thesis, he faces a life-or-death situation—Huang Gai's feigned surrender and fire ships are coming, and 300,000 Cao troops are about to be engulfed in flames. Awakening the Iron Pot Logistics System, altering history costs him his lifespan, but Mao Dou bets his life to see through the fire attack scheme and reverse fate with a marching pot! Using plant ash to block fire, rice soup to save grain stores, and diverting water to flood Zhou Yu's army, a mere cook turns the tide at Red Cliffs! Cao Cao promotes him, while Jia Xu, Xun Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Pang Tong watch from the shadows, and Zhou Yu exhausts his resources to uncover Mao Dou's origins. To protect the people and his own life, Mao Dou gathers defeated soldiers, improves military rations, recruits Xing Daorong, and plays a game of chess with Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu sacrifices 60 years of his life to a pact with the Heavenly Dao to stop the otherworldly visitor; Mao Dou uses modern knowledge to defy the heavens, preventing epidemics, earthquakes, and floods. When the system fails and the Heavenly Dao turns against him, this scholar by the pot uses the smoke of war as his blade to rewrite the Book of Life and Death of the Three Kingdoms, burning away the embers across the river and leaving behind a beacon of smoke in a chaotic world.