The Right Way in the Human World Is Hardship and Drifting Across the Seas

Meng Jia wakes from a dream to find herself transformed into a young student from a century ago who had opposed a feudal arranged marriage and starved to death in a hunger strike. To continue escaping marriage, she follows her older male cousin to Guangzhou to study. There she unexpectedly meets Chu Cai, secretary in the commandant's office of the Whampoa Military Academy. He is the shadow warrior behind the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, a department chief who manipulates power, a cold, delicate, obsessive politician who will stop at nothing to achieve his aims—a martyr. As the two meet, fall in love, and come to understand each other, can they redeem one another amid the upheaval and rise and fall of a chaotic age?

When the iron hooves of the invading Japanese shatter the rivers and mountains and war rages everywhere, we have already made our decision: to fight to the death and resist to the end. If necessary, I will burn my life away completely—but my beloved, you must live on.

Meng Jia struggles to survive through hails of bullets, witnessing the final glory of the German-equipped divisions, the Northwest Army's bloody fight to the end at Taierzhuang, and the expeditionary army's valor in foreign lands. She sees with her own eyes the tragedy of close friends and family dying before her. Swept along by the tides of the era, unable to control her own fate, after enduring the sorrows and joys of troubled times and surviving years of unending war, can she finally welcome a life of peace and stability?