“You transmigrated two thousand years into the past. Did you ever imagine that history would record you, too?”
After transmigrating to the end of the Qin dynasty, Chen Ming gained the power of immortality, but could not change any major historical events.
From Xiang Yu’s suicide to Wang Mang usurping the Han throne, from Huo Qubing’s campaign to the Qilian Mountains to the Restoration of the Han under Emperor Guangwu,
he witnessed every moment destined to go down in history, serving as a minor official in Xianyang, a military physician, and a clerk in the Grand Historiographer’s Office.
★ Before writing Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian once asked him what Xiang Yu really looked like.
★ On the night Huo Qubing coughed blood before his death, he pressed his fingerprints into a bamboo slip.
★ He personally gave the young Zhang Zhongjing an advanced medical text, helping him write Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases.
★ Before Wang Mang declared himself emperor, his jade tablet had already foretold the “great upheaval of the fifth year of Yuanshi.”
When Liu Xiu interrogates him at Nangong: “Sir, have you had enough of living for two hundred years?”
