Rule One: You have to save people, starting in the era of Qin Shi Huang and proceeding in order. You can’t skip a single dynasty.
Rule Two: The historical ending is set in stone. Don’t even think about changing it! Saving one person is allowed, but becoming a savior? Not a chance!
Rule Three: Do a good job and you’ll get rewards: extra days to stay, or more modern gadgets to bring along. It all depends on how you perform!
Chen Yanxiu, a college student, finds a bronze contraption in his grandfather’s shabby attic. He thinks it’s an antique, but it turns out to be a terrible “historical ride-hailing beatdown” machine! His summer vacation goes completely off the rails:
Qin Dynasty: After barely escaping the blade of the book-burning and scholar-burying campaign, he has to figure out how to save a “tech geek” about to be beheaded without arousing Ying Zheng’s suspicions... (Rating: A. Reward: Basic playing-dead technique?)
Yashan, Southern Song: A hundred thousand soldiers and civilians leap into the sea. I can only grab one copyist... (The rules are merciless: saving one is the limit! I’m in tears!)
From goofy, reckless antics at the start to being ground down by the tides of history until he questions his own existence, Chen Yanxiu dances on a tightrope through dozens of transmigrations. Save Yue Fei? He can only keep him from getting hurt as a boy. Watch Han Xin fall? He can only snatch away a fragment of Han Xin’s military treatise! The System’s ratings are cold, and history’s wheels roll on without mercy. All he manages to save is a grain of sand in the flood...
Until the coordinates for his final transmigration lock on: Shanghai, 1937, the Sihang Warehouse! Amid the storm of gunfire, he sees a figure bound with grenades leaping into the fray: his great-grandfather, Chen Shusheng!
“The rules? The rewards? Going home?” He roars as he charges into a hail of bullets. “I’m not going back! I’ll defend this history with my life!”
