Transmigration: Unemployed Programmer Becomes a Romantic Swordsman of Great Ming

I'm Liu Xiaohai, a 41-year-old programmer. Both my parents are from the countryside. I worked hard to get into a third-rate university, then moved to Kyoto after graduation to work as a coder, struggling and striving for years in the hope of making something of myself.

At 28, I was talked into starting a business. I lost the 220,000 yuan I'd scrimped and saved, and my girlfriend broke up with me. Unable to afford a home in Kyoto, I stayed single until I was 40. After turning 40, I was promptly fired by my company and became unemployed.

I spent a year desperately looking for work and still couldn't find any. With no other options, I took a dangerous gamble and signed up for the 2026 Mars Exploration Program. I'd sell my life for 200,000 yuan and leave it to fate whether I lived or died.

"The ship's caught in a space-time turbulence storm. It's about to explode! What's this cloud of gray gas in the storm? How did it carry me through a space-time tunnel?"

"This is the era of Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty? I've been given a new life! This time, I absolutely won't study for the imperial examinations. I'll train hard in martial arts and change my fate!"

This is the story of an IT programmer who takes part in a failed Mars exploration mission, accidentally transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, and becomes the most dashing swordsman in the empire.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.