On a snowy night in the third year of Jian Ning, Yang Gazi wakes up after being electrocuted at an internet cafe. A wolf-head tattoo over his collarbone beads with blood amid the beacon fires of Youzhou. He discovers that the bronze short sword passed down by his frontier-guarding ancestors can decipher the biochemical armored soldiers of the Way of Great Peace; that Cai Wenji's Jiaowei zither can unleash the sound of twenty-first-century rock; and that the QR code appearing on the Imperial Jade Seal foretells how he will trample the banners of Cao Wei. At last, this modern soul, implanted into a "Three Kingdoms sandbox" by a higher civilization, understands: the so-called rise of the Yellow Heaven is nothing but a string of error codes waiting to be overwritten.
