The Sky Screen Descends: How the Ancients See the Modern World

Note: This is a new author, and the writing is average. Readers who demand strict historical accuracy, beware!

As candlelight in Xianyang Palace glints off the cold bronze cauldrons, Qin Shi Huang looks up and sees an enormous, radiant screen suddenly appear among the stars. As Zhuge Liang observes the heavens at night in his tent at Wuzhang Plains, he sees images on the sky screen of a steel bird slicing through the clouds. As palace ladies in the Tang court apply yellow makeup before their mirrors, they are astonished to see oddly dressed men and women singing and dancing in a “livestream.”

As fragments of modern civilization pierce the barriers of time and space and fall into the river of history, will the ancients, their understanding of the world overturned, set off a storm of chaos? Or will the protagonist, completely unaware, become the “hidden hand” rewriting history? This “spectacle watched by all across a thousand years” is about to begin in a way that is both absurd and breathtaking.