Chapter 4: To Survive or to Perish
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“Ideals are full, but reality is bony.”
Xiao Ming still remembered—back in school, this was his mentor’s favorite saying.
Now, he was confronted with the harsh reality of that phrase.
Looking at his situation objectively—his fief was dirt-poor, barely any better than primitive society. Most of the farmland belonged to the aristocratic clans, leaving the commoners as nothing more than exploited laborers.
Even with the Science Crystal, changing things here would be an uphill battle.
His inherited memories made one thing clear—Da Yu looked peaceful on the surface, but in reality, it was teeming with hidden unrest.
Time was not on his side.
Xiao Ming wasn’t a warlord, but if he wanted to protect his land, stay out of Da Yu’s political chaos, and avoid getting his head chopped off by his power-hungry brothers and uncles, he had to develop his fief.
It was a paradox—difficult to do, yet absolutely necessary.
“Clang… Clang… Clang…”
Leaning against a stone bridge in the prince’s residence, deep in thought about his fief’s future, Xiao Ming was suddenly startled by the urgent ringing of a bell from the direction of the city gate.