The Han Dynasty's Second-Place Scholar Transmigrates to Modern Times to Tie Rebar

I'm Liu Zhan, the second-place scholar of the Great Han and a Hanlin Academy official! I close my eyes, open them again, and find myself a bottom-rung rebar worker on a construction site, Liu Ergou? I'm out under the scorching sun, blisters piling on top of blisters, while the foreman, "Wang the Skinflint," points at me and curses, "You're born to eat shit!"

The fall is harsher than tumbling from the throne room straight into a cesspit!

But do you think I'm a pushover? Did I study The Art of War for nothing? Wang the Skinflint docks our wages? I'll write a denunciation fiercer than an imperial censor's memorial! A coworker tries to ambush me? I'll teach him a lesson with Great Han grappling techniques! Need to calculate rebar cuts? My mental arithmetic will drop the contractor's jaw! Can't read the blueprints? The Secret Techniques of Lu Ban were my primer!

From "Ergou" to "Engineer Liu," I carve a path through the rebar jungle! I take down crooked foremen, bring developers to their knees, and even save Li Yanran, the document controller who looked down on me... Why has that girl started looking at me differently?

I barely catch my breath before the real wolves arrive! Real estate tycoon Zhang Tianhao and the Ye family of the capital both have their eyes on the "old-fashioned knowledge" in my head! Business suppression? Smear campaigns? Dirty tricks? Bring it on! I'll use Guiguzi's stratagems to play the capital game, and the Yingzao Fashi to build an empire! Calligraphy with force and grace? It's my ticket into high society! I debated a hall full of scholars back then, and I'll still beat you in the business world today!

Then an eerie Han tomb is unearthed at the construction site. A mysterious "Tomb Guardian" presses a bronze token engraved with taboo runes into my hand. Only when a madman from the Ye family screams, "The Gate of Guixu!" do I realize that transmigrating here was no accident! A global upheaval erupts, and ancient battle spirits roar in the shadows! And I, this "old-fashioned relic," turn out to be the key to connecting past and present and protecting this prosperous world!