Peerless Concubine's Son

Peerless Concubine's Son is a long historical alternate-world novel by the web author Manke 1, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network, about 2.68 million characters in total, and completed. The story takes place in the fictional Great Jin dynasty. The protagonist, Li Xin, is the illegitimate son of Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan; after his mother dies of illness, he goes to the capital with his great-uncle to seek his relatives, but is cursed as a "bastard" and driven from the marquis's mansion, finally freezing to death with his great-uncle in a ruined temple outside the city. A transmigrator from the modern era happens to possess Li Xin at this moment, and the awakened "new Li Xin" sets himself two goals: first, to survive; second, to bring down the scoundrel father who abandoned his wife and child. Rescued from the ruined temple by a charcoal seller, he makes a living selling charcoal and, drawing on modern knowledge, improves charcoal products to gain a foothold in the capital's markets; he is then drawn step by step into the mansion's internal strife, court factional politics, and border warfare, rising through wit and skill in managing people, and ultimately rewriting his fate amid a chaotic world. Starting from the identity of a "concubine's son," the book depicts marketplace livelihood, mansion intrigue, court machinations, and national warfare in successive layers, with tight pacing and intelligent characters, and is a long web novel with both good reputation and strong performance in the historical category.