On a summer night in Xi’an in 2025, Wang Qiang, a Suda delivery driver, took a shortcut when a burst of blue light suddenly exploded overhead.
A man dressed in a black ceremonial robe and crown, with a bronze sword at his side, landed with a thud. He shot Wang Qiang a cold look. “You stand before Your Majesty. Why do you not bow?”
Staring at the fading blue light, Wang Qiang was dumbfounded. “Dude, did your film crew take a wrong turn?”
He had no idea this was the First Emperor himself, sent to the wrong place by an alien delivery service!
When taught how to use a toilet, Ying Zheng bowed three times and kowtowed to the cistern. “A cleansing device from the Immortal Palace deserves a grand ceremony!”
When Wang Qiang took him along on deliveries, Ying Zheng held the navigation app like a military map. “This road is like an enemy formation. Take the alley and we’ll save fifteen minutes!”
When a burly man slapped the delivery box and shouted, “You’re late! I’ll smash your vehicle!” Ying Zheng stepped forward, and the man’s legs went weak. “Sir, I was wrong!”
Wang Qiang laughed. “Brother Zheng, we deliver food. We’re not conquering the world!”
But in less than half a year, the two of them became an overnight sensation:
The First Emperor became a top-tier star online with his “imperial-style food delivery,” raking in livestream tips every day. He opened “Great Qin Consulting” and used military strategy to settle disputes. His fees could be as high as you liked, yet people still clamored for appointments. And with his discerning eye, he found undervalued antiques, helping Wang Qiang go from a broke young man drowning in debt to a billionaire in Xi’an whose name alone was enough to make people offer him a cigarette.
Then one day, an alien message in garbled text popped up on Wang Qiang’s phone: “Transport error… Tracking in progress…”
He glanced at Ying Zheng, crouched in a hotpot restaurant studying how the “two flavors of the hotpot are separated into two compartments,” and suddenly panicked.
“If you go back to the Qin dynasty, who’ll help me handle trouble and make a fortune?”
