Shouldering the Mountains and Rivers

The Grand General died in battle, and his legitimate son was severely wounded. The matriarch, Yuwen Muxue, held up the crumbling household amidst the covetous eyes of the entire estate. Three concubines, each with their own schemes, eyed the position of matriarch, while three illegitimate sons coveted the title and the position of family head. They all believed that an eight-year-old child could do nothing. Heba Jun stood in the corner, raised his little face, and said, "Mother, don't be afraid. Jun'er will never let anyone harm you." But Yuwen Muxue knew that this child possessed something not of this world—he said it was memories from another world in his dreams. In his dreams, there were iron birds that flew in the sky, surgical techniques that could heal even when flesh was cut open, and a phrase she didn't understand at first: "The old rules devour people; it's time to replace them with new ones." From the struggle for survival of a single household to the collapse of an entire dynasty's old systems. Xianbei and Han, grassland and Central Plains, levirate marriage and monogamy. A boy who climbed up from the mud and a woman trapped by the system ultimately stood at the highest point of this land, personally abolishing that man-eating rule. — Description from novelcodex.org