“When Qin Shi Huang watched a rocket launch, when Li Shimin saw modern taxes ‘rob the rich to help the poor,’ when Zhu Yuanzhang clutched seeds of hybrid rice and wept...
Lin Mo was just an office worker hoping to slack off, but he never expected his phone to become a ‘civilization livestream’ connecting the past and present.
Modern everyday life projected across the sky screen sends five thousand years of history into a collective meltdown:
‘This lamp (electric light) doesn’t need oil?’ In ancient times, Edison becomes the ‘God of Fire.’
‘Women can hold office too?’ Wu Zetian treats the sky screen as a ‘guide to ascending the throne.’
‘You don’t need people to fight wars?’ Genghis Khan watches drone footage and falls silent for three days and nights.
History has never been this crazy, and it all began with one question from office worker Lin Mo: ‘What should I eat today?’”
After an accident, the phone of modern office worker Lin Mo is mysteriously bound to the “Sky Screen System.” Everything he sees and hears in his daily life, from scrolling through short videos and reading the news to shopping at the supermarket and even slacking off at work, is projected in real time into the skies above the various dynasties of ancient China, becoming a “heavenly revelation” witnessed by the whole world. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing, countless emperors, ministers, scholars, and commoners peer into the future through the “sky screen.” Modern civilization repeatedly upends their worldview, and the course of history quietly veers off its original path...
Does every dynasty need to be shocked? Is that confirmed? Each chapter introduces a new dynasty, a new emperor, and this emperor is utterly shocked!
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