Via Lactea announced preorders for To Rule in a Turbulent World Vol. 2 by Gu Xuerou. The preorder period will run from November 30 to December 30, 2024, and a shipment date is yet to be announced. Preorders can be made on Via Lactea’s site, or through one of their listed third-party vendors.
The freebies pictured in the promotional material are exclusive to preorders, and include art prints, a keychain, and printed signatures from the author with quotes from the novel.
“Gu Xuerou” is the pen name of well-known author Fei Tian Ye Xiang (also known as Chicken-gege). Fei Tian has brought readers many other danmei works, including Legend of Exorcism and Dinghai Fusheng Records. Seven Seas Entertainment will be releasing several of Fei Tian’s other works in North America in the coming months.
To Rule in a Turbulent World (乱世为王) ran for 75 chapters on jjwxc starting in 2014. The story is loosely based on the events surrounding the fall of the Song Dynasty. It follows You Miao, a once-rich young master who now only has his late mother’s barren estate and a loyal Quanrong slave. As he attempts to start anew, the country is thrown into the chaos of war. Along with his new sworn brothers, he embarks on a journey to uphold a fractured nation.
Via Lactea has provided the following series summary:
Loosely based on the history of Song Dynasty, To Rule in a Turbulent World tells the story of You Miao, the dandy son of a merchant who climbed his way to the very top from rock bottom. We witness the history of a nation, from prosperity to decline, to a new order. Peace, war, internal strife; You Miao has lived through it all—but not without his loyal Quanrong slave-turned-husband, Li Zhifeng. Theirs is a story of undying devotion that combats racial boundaries in a time when the ethnic tribes of the north clashed with the Han empire. Together, they ruled the world! (Behind the scenes, of course.)
As friends, as foes, as friends turned foes and foes turned friends, the epic continues its song, and the most beautiful moonlight of the great desert is yet to come…
It is standard practice for Via Lactea to release a series in eBook format first in order to incorporate fan feedback and corrections into later print releases. The eBook for To Rule in a Turbulent World Vol. 2 was available for purchase in June of 2024. The translation and editing team consists of Suika and Pengie respectively, who are the same team that worked on Seven Seas Entertainment’s Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and Heaven Official’s Blessing series.
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