Emperor Yuan Zhao, the God of War General Xiao Ce, and the clever eunuch Fu An are chased by Yuan Lin, the emperor’s younger brother, and plunge off a cliff. When they open their eyes, they find themselves in the modern world as total oddballs
Yuan Zhao tumbles into the back alley of a club, where the neighborhood queen takes him in as a “cool male model.” Every day, he is forced to wear a floral shirt and stand behind the bar, thinking, “These mortals don’t even know I am the Son of Heaven, yet they dare call me ‘Xiao Zhao’?”
General Xiao Ce crashes through the window of Su Xiaoxiao, a young heiress fallen on hard times. With instant noodles for dinner and his sword stuck in the security bars, he ends up as the “God of War with a mop,” ordered to buy soy sauce and fix light bulbs. He reports with utter seriousness, “Madam, this ‘concealed weapon’, the microwave, is far too strange. I dare not touch it.”
Eunuch Fu An is lightly “bumped” by the car of the domineering CEO Gu Yanzhi, and immediately drops to his knees to perform courtly service. He keeps the mansion in finer order than the imperial palace, fries eggs with dragon patterns for the CEO, and folds the bedding corners to a perfect 90 degrees. The CEO complains, “The old guy makes such a fuss,” but then signs him up for a senior citizens’ choir.
When the God of War meets a “short-tempered landlord,” the eunuch gets paired with a “neat-freak CEO,” and the emperor is forced to become a “male model,” three ancients kick off a chaotic modern-day makeover: splitting firewood with a sword and getting called crazy, treating a phone like a messenger talisman, and giving the CEO the three prostrations and nine kowtows…
Even more shocking, there’s a modern-day “Yuan Lin,” too! The three decide to team up and cause trouble: “First we take down his company, then we can talk about going back to the Northern Court!”
