Zhou Jin, the Horse Slave: Ying Boyi and the Celestial Mirror

Ying Boyi, a postgraduate archaeology student, was what everyone called a loser. He had never dated in his twenty-six years of life, spending his days with pottery shards, Qin bamboo slips, and lab mice. His greatest wish was to have an egg with his instant noodles. But while clearing artifacts from the Terracotta Army pits at Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, a kneeling archer statue's broken left arm struck him, and he unexpectedly transmigrated to the chaos in Haojing at the end of the Western Zhou dynasty.

At the time, the Quanrong had breached the city and the Zhou royal house was on the brink of collapse. He became a stable hand, a horse-raising slave from a collateral branch of the Ying clan, liable to die by the sword at any moment. In this desperate situation, he stumbled upon the Zhou royal family's secret treasure, the Hunyuan Baojian, and learned a peerless martial art that swiftly made him a formidable fighter.

From then on, he protected his clan from disaster and led his followers into battle against the Quanrong. Drawing on his modern knowledge of history, he helped the Ying clan rise to power. Step by step, he went from a slave at everyone's mercy to a revered leader, and even married a beautiful, virtuous wife. He witnessed pivotal moments, from the fall of the Western Zhou to the dawn of the Spring and Autumn period, and quietly steered the course of history. He even unexpectedly took the young Guiguzi as his disciple, writing an epic in a chaotic age that carried him across a thousand years, from an archaeology student dismissed as a loser to a legendary powerhouse.