Rebirth 1904: Building a Germany on Which the Sun Never Sets

When the oak door of the Berlin Naval Academy Library closed heavily behind him, the 16-year-old Prince Oscar—or Yang Lin—felt that the weight of the entire Second German Empire was pressing on his shoulder blades. This is not rhetoric. For three months, whenever he was alone in his dormitory in the dead of night and faced the unfamiliar face of a Germanic boy with high cheekbones and light blond hair in the mirror, that weight would appear in the most concrete way: his breathing would become shallow, his heart rate would accelerate erratically, and his temples would feel a dull pain as if they were being pressed by two invisible thumbs. The doctor said it was "nervous" and prescribed bromide sedatives. But Yang Lin knew that this was not a neurological problem. It was a rejection reaction caused by the soul of a freshman in the history department from 2024 being forced into the body of a German prince from 1904. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.