Lu Ziyan, a good-for-nothing at chemistry, is tricked by his gold-digging girlfriend into transmigrating to the State of Qin. Using saltpeter to make ice and black powder to build his fortune, he rises to become the richest man in the land, only to encounter an enemy from his past life, now disguised as a princess's maid. When genetically modified soybeans unleash a zombie plague and viral Douyin songs become weapons of murder, he must use the periodic table to battle a space-time paradox and find the answer to true love among political schemes and equations.
