When Qin Yan opens his eyes, he is carrying stones. One moment he was a civil engineering PhD and a king among engineers; the next, he has become the illegitimate son and heir to a noble house, drafted into a labor camp. His body is covered in wounds from beatings, and he is in so much pain he nearly passes out.
As the overseer’s whip comes down, he instinctively tries to dodge, but his body is weak to the point of collapse. Yet as he looks at the rammed-earth construction site stretching for miles, the soul of a civil engineering PhD cries out: “How long can this foundation settlement hold? What kind of mortise-and-tenon joint is this?”
When a tower collapses, only he can solve the problem with engineering mechanics and modern techniques. Under his direction, buildings rise one after another. He builds roads and canals. This is what civil engineering truly means, the status it deserves, and what it means to be a true king among engineers!
