Other people transmigrate and defy fate. My transmigration was just a stroke of terrible luck.
My name is Lin Pingfan, and I'm exactly as ordinary as it sounds: the unremarkable owner of a convenience store in a residential complex. My days used to be peaceful and lazy: sweeping the floor, taking payments, and killing time watching dramas. Then, overnight, a rift in time and space opened in the backyard of my store.
From then on, my life spiraled completely out of control.
Qin Shi Huang, who unified the realm, squats behind my register studying QR-code payments and insists on minting coins to pay my wages. Xiang Yu, strong enough to lift mountains, is obsessed with riding shared electric scooters and fights the neighborhood seniors every day over parking spots. Li Bai, the immortal poet, hangs around the snack aisle, treating carbonated drinks like heavenly nectar and composing poems to the outdoor AC unit when he's had too much. Liu Bang, the emperor who rose from humble origins, makes a career out of freeloading, and his greatest pleasure is competing with the neighborhood aunties for free supermarket eggs and joining their mahjong games.
Worst of all, not one of these historical bigwigs knows how to behave.
Jing Ke stares pensively at the automatic sliding doors and keeps looking for a chance to “assassinate” the demon door that opens and closes by itself. Guan Yu complains that modern fast food is too bland and insists on chopping firewood in the backyard to cook a huge communal meal. The divine physician Hua Tuo studies a thermometer for ages, baffled as to how this silver needle can diagnose illness without being heated over a flame.
I only wanted to live an easy life, but I was forced to become the personal caretaker, modern-day tutor, and emergency scapegoat for a bunch of historical bigwigs.
Other people work to make money. I work to stay alive.
When emperors, generals, scholars, and martial heroes from every dynasty crowd into a modern residential complex, a hilarious, chaotic life of total mayhem officially begins!
