In the third year of the Zhenguan era, Chang'an bustles with traffic inside the Vermilion Bird Gate. Foreign merchants crowd the Western Market, and the palace buildings shimmer like colored glass in the sunlight.
Li Yin, from a thousand years in the future, stumbles into this legendary imperial capital with a head full of knowledge that is “out of place.”
He has read about the Zhenguan Reign in history books, but he never expected that beneath the prosperous age, the embers of the Xuanwu Gate Incident would still be smoldering, the threat of Turkic cavalry would loom overhead, and powerful clans would be deeply entrenched, while countless ordinary people struggled to survive in the tide of the times.
He has no golden finger and no powerful patron. He's just a stranger carrying an outdated history textbook.
