This is an ambitious and highly accomplished work.
It successfully created an awe-inspiring and lamentable image of a time-traveling emperor, built an iron-blooded empire with rich details and self-consistent operation logic, and finally completed a profound interrogation of the relationship between power, technology, institutions and human nature with its unexpected and thought-provoking ending.
It is not only a story, but also a thought experiment: when an individual with modern thinking gains absolute power, the ultimate order he can create and the eternal loneliness he must bear.
Although there may be some trade-offs in emotional rendering and some rhythms, its grand concept, cold brushwork and profound themes are enough to make it a unique masterpiece among the fictional historical themes and worthy of repeated appreciation.
