The Thawing of Daxia

“So you’re writing poetry, huh? Great. Your Brother Feng will give you one too.”

Leng Yunfeng casually recited:

“The mountains and rivers look so fine,

Fish and rice are cooked in bowls.

Three full meals each day, yet gratitude is nowhere to be found,

They ape the poets, trading verse.

A flock of geese upon the bow,

Goose, goose, echoing back and forth.

So proud of their sweet, melodious song,

Turns out it’s livestock making noise.”

Leng Yunfeng, a top science student, was caught in a sudden avalanche while mountain climbing. Encased in ice and fossilized, he traveled through time to the unrecorded Great Xia Dynasty, where he was unearthed at a stone-gambling house. Thus began a modern genius’s struggle to survive and thrive in ancient times, accelerate the technological revolution, and establish a superpower that would draw all nations to pay tribute. If history doesn’t exist, I’ll make it myself...