Emperor in the Making: Surviving the Chaos

In the fourth year of Changxing, Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang was gravely ill, and the realm was about to descend into chaos again. Gu Yan transmigrated to Kaifeng docks, becoming a porter carrying heavy loads. At this time, Guo Wei, the future founder of Later Zhou, was still an obscure squad leader outside Jinyang. Shi Jingtang had not yet led the Khitan into the Central Plains, and Kaifeng had not yet been bloodied. The darkest twenty years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms had just begun. What could a modern person who knows the course of history do? He had no system, no cheat code—only shoulders that could carry two hundred jin and a brain that never gave up. He would start from the docks and carve his own path.