Two storylines unfold side by side. The main thread: “After a lifetime of struggle, at last I can live an ordinary life.” The hidden thread: “No one was wrong. Only the outcome was.”
Autumn, 279 BCE. Xianyang, capital of Qin.
Slave Geng Yi and his mother, the war captive Ba Kui,
are plotting how to kill Slave Bing Er, who forced himself on her.
Bai Qi, the God of Slaughter, with the help of his uncle Mi,
is preparing for the next great battle alongside his clerks, retainers, and household servants.
All they need is for King Ji of Qin to issue the order.
King Ji is caught between his uncle Wei Ran, his mother Queen Dowager Xuan,
and the faction of the “Four Nobles” she leads.
He does everything he can to maneuver between them,
refusing to become a complete puppet, but unable to seize power outright.
In 2249 CE, humanity has nearly brought its own species
to the brink of collapse.
Animals that fly in the sky, run on land, and swim in the water
are all allowed to join the human race.
All they need to do is pass a simple human qualification test!
They even get jobs assigned to them!
On a journey through time and space, a wildebeest person and a baby shark
take a wrong turn in the time tunnel
and accidentally end up in Xianyang in 279 BCE.
The wildebeest person wants to protect Bai Qi and change humanity's future.
The baby shark just wants to get back to 2249 CE as quickly as possible
and resume the dreary office life they worked so hard to obtain.
The story is set primarily in 279 and 278 BCE,
in Xianyang, capital of Qin, on the eve of Qin's campaign against Chu.
According to the dating system used at the time,
these are the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years of King Ji of Qin,
in the Qin capital of Xianyang.
