In 2025, archaeology doctoral student Zhou Mu is transmigrated to a fire-ravaged Luoyang in 189, clutching a bronze tiger tally. Blood markings on his palm activate the Time-Space Deduction System, granting him the abilities of "Time Reversal" and "Technology Tree Unlock." He rescues Cao Zhang from the flames, saves Dian Wei with penicillin, and presents Cao Cao with strategies for farming settlements and building cities from concrete. But he discovers that Yuan Shao's camp already has a hostile transmigrator, who is rewriting history with gunpowder and cannons.
On the waters of Red Cliffs, Zhou Yu awakens to the power of time and space and confronts him. On Wuzhang Plains, Zhuge Liang smiles in his final moments, hinting that he has long known Zhou Mu's origins. From improving papermaking to control public opinion, to using hot-air balloons to scout the enemy and minefields to change the course of battle, every new technology upends the rules of the late Han. But saving renowned generals who were supposed to die young and preparing for the Battle of Guandu and Wuchao ahead of time make Cao Cao suspicious of the "Mandate of Heaven," even triggering a butterfly effect across parallel timelines. In some worlds, Zhou Mu's early death plunges the land into even greater warfare; in others, Zhuge Liang sweeps across the Central Plains with mechanical inventions.
When the tiger tally is fully assembled, the System interface reveals the truth: the entire 2025 archaeology team transmigrated. The jade pendants worn by Cao Cao and the others are anchors belonging to the Time-Space Administration, and the entire war-torn Three Kingdoms era is nothing but a "historical laboratory" created by a higher civilization. Zhou Mu must choose between rewriting history and preserving the stability of time and space. Meanwhile, the true meaning of the "Heavenly Mandate's Black Bird" hidden within the tiger tally is drawing him into a time-space wager spanning two thousand years...
Highlights: A clash between two transmigrators, technological superiority, and time-space paradoxes. See how a modern man uses a System and strategic thinking to write his own chapter of defying fate in the gaps between the historical records.
