Modern strategy vs. ancient political intrigue | Hard-hitting historical espionage | Technological domination
Archaeologist Qin Zhao transmigrates as the thirteen-year-old Ying Zheng and regains his memories on the eve of his coming-of-age ceremony.
The Great Qin Dynasty is rife with danger:
Poison hidden in the soup Zhao Ji serves
A map of Shu's mountain paths and military armor glimpsed on a jade disc from Chu
A secret Xiongnu box lying dormant beneath the hot springs of Ganquan Palace
Using his modern knowledge, he creates a Warring States-era code system that overwhelms the enemy with a vastly superior level of technology:
✔️ He uses acetic acid to reveal clues and dismantle Lü Buwei's salt and iron smuggling network
✔️ He deploys fire attacks with wooden kites and magnetic mechanisms to sweep away the elite forces of the Six States
✔️ He uncovers the Yin-Yang School's secret astral messages amid the ashes of the book burning
As the Black Ice Terrace turns its blades toward the realm, an even greater conspiracy comes to light:
The bronze compass on Xu Fu's fleet bound for the East points to the North American continent
The Heirloom Seal conceals a Mohist mechanism; when its missing corner is restored, writing in four different scripts appears
Deep beneath Xianyang's underground palace, a bronze computer has been running for two thousand years
This is the most hard-hitting Qin-era tale of power and intrigue:
Mechanical battle formations break Wang Jian's military strategies, economic warfare destroys the currencies of the Six States, and an information chokehold brings the contention of a hundred schools to an end.
It is also a clash of civilizations across time:
The mirror array in Epang Palace reflects quantum entanglement, the Great Wall's beacon towers conceal keys to extraterrestrial civilization, and magnetic powder mixed into the seal's ink creates an anti-counterfeiting code.
When a modern archaeological team triggers the mechanisms in the underground palace, the ominous celestial phenomenon of Mars guarding the Heart constellation appears once more.
How many shocking secrets did the man known to history as a tyrant bury in the hidden layers of time?
