An Unlikely Journey in the High Tang: A Mirror of History Across the Heavens

Spring, the third year of the Tianbao era.

East of Luoyang, there was a place called the Broken Inkstone Study. Calling it a study was a bit of a stretch. And right now, a particularly absurd scene was playing out inside.

The oil lamp cast barely any light, illuminating the thin figure of a man.

That man was our protagonist, Li Yan.

He was hunched over a battered desk, writing furiously as he copied a fragment of The Grand Beginning Strategy.

The scratch of his pen against the paper rang out clearly in the stillness of the night.