As the roar of steam tears through the night of the Victorian era, a soul from another time will rewrite the iron laws of the British Empire with gears and fire.
Arthur Lin, a 21st-century mechanical engineer, is thrown into the East End of London in 1830 when an industrial exhibition explodes. Here, the corpses of child laborers float down the Thames, opium contracts are sold by candlelight in Parliament, and the East India Company's black sails drag the entire empire toward a bloody abyss.
As the first draft of Capital is still wet with ink,
As the first arc lamp illuminates the ossuary beneath Westminster,
Arthur Lin's pocket watch stops forever at 19:30.
This is the darkest hour of the Industrial Revolution,
and the perfect time to kindle the dawn of humanity.
