Shen Mo, a senior computer science student on the verge of collapse, suffered a cardiac arrest while staying up late to complete his graduation project. At the moment of death, he was dragged into the border of the Qin Dynasty in 214 BC by a mysterious code and became a prisoner on the Great Wall construction site. There is an additional luminous symbol on the wrist - the seventh fragment of the bronze mirror.
Symbols can analyze the structure of objects, allowing him to use modern knowledge such as "standardization" and "pulley blocks" to counterattack from a coolie to an engineer. But there are seven fragments in total, scattered everywhere: Xu Fu used fragment No. 1 To control Qin Shihuang, Zhao Gao held fragment No. 2 To wander in the cracks of power, Meng Tianyong guarded the door to another world with fragment No. 3, And Yushi Cheng Li You forbeared No. 6 For seventeen years just for revenge. The Xiongnu night attack, the conspiracy at the altar, the mirror spirit in human skin watching...
When all the chess pieces were pushed onto the chessboard, Shen Mo discovered that his time travel was not an accident, but the fate of being selected. He wants to live, to go home, and to use modern thinking to crack this chess game of life and death that spans two thousand years.