GuohuanChen
Five years ago, Stone 's parents went missing while picking cotton in Xinjiang. After a painful journey across China with his grandparents-both of whom passed away on the road-young Stone found himself working endlessly at a beef noodle shop in Ningbo, unpaid, overworked, and sleeping on wooden tables in the dead of winter.
When he closes his eyes after a long midnight shift, expecting only another cold dawn, he wakes up on a warm heated brick bed (kang) in a mud-brick cottage.
He has transmigrated to 1103 AD-the 3rd year of Emperor Tianzuo's reign in the Liao Dynasty. He is now living in Liujiaying village, near the Yan-Yun Sixteen Prefectures. Worldly affairs mean little to a boy who only completed primary school; he has no martial prowess, no political ambition, and no cheat codes. All he wants is to survive, keep his adopted family safe, and see if his parents from the future somehow crossed over too.
Yet history cares nothing for quiet lives. As he navigates local village life, playful childhood adventures, theft of books from a eccentric local Marquis, and encounters with wolves on the border, Stone finds himself swept into the grand gearwork of the Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia conflicts. Together with an intriguing mix of transmigrated family members, cunning warlords, and ordinary peasants, Stone must use his modern common sense, endurance, and quiet compassion to build a refuge in the midst of turmoil.