I Transmigrated as Gao Qiu and Struck It Rich with the Lottery in the Song Dynasty

When Gao Ergou, a modern data analyst at a state lottery center, unexpectedly transmigrates into Gao Qiu, a street thug in the Northern Song, an absurd game spanning a thousand years begins. Armed with Excel spreadsheets, blockchain thinking, and lottery big data, he sets off a revolution in Bianjing's Zhou Bridge night market: using calculus to portion pork for Su Shi's family, turning the Treatise on Architectural Methods into a modular cuju field, and even hiding Morse code in candied hawthorn to send secret messages. He combines modern gambling models with the Northern Song's “put-and-take” tradition, inventing nine-grid cuju betting and scratch-off salt permits, and turns Bianjing's eighteen wards into a giant casino. At Prince Duan's residence, he uses VR to showcase metaverse cuju, only to accidentally let Emperor Huizong glimpse the future Jingkang disaster. Working with Li Shishi, he turns the Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe Dance into an intelligence code, and teaches Xin Qiji to decipher Jin messages through the rhythms of Song poetry. Yet every “improvement” he makes to history sets off a butterfly effect: gunpowder cuju unearths oil, magnetic-ball techniques throw the celestial globe into chaos, and even the Cold Food Festival Scroll becomes a draft ledger. As he tries to rebuild the Northern Song economy using lottery strategies, Cai Jing's counterfeit-coin conspiracy, Tong Guan's military secrets, and mysterious observers from the Time Administration all appear one after another. A decisive contest over the course of history and the laws of time is quietly unfolding amid the black-and-white patterns of the cuju ball... Here, Excel spreadsheets rewrite military strategy, blockchain ledgers brew pu'er tea, and the rhymes of Song poetry conceal ciphers. The gears of history and the wheels of the lottery mesh in a wild frenzy, weaving a transmigration tale that blends dark humor with audacious ideas.