A scam that spans thousands of years, a pair of desperate mandarin ducks use saltpeter and love to rewrite the prosperous age.
In the third year of Tianbao's reign, he lived in the West City of Chang'an. Chemistry graduate student Li Yang was woken up by a bucket of rancid water. Jingzhaofu Junjun pointed at his bowl of ice cream and yelled "witchcraft", and Marquis Wu held a fire stick against his throat. Su Waner pushed aside the crowd, and what she handed over was not a helping hand, but a Pisces jade pendant engraved with "Prince Yong's Mansion" - a taboo token that should have been destroyed by the rebellion twenty years ago.
"Run!"
This run led to the core conspiracy of the Anshi Rebellion: An Lushan used saltpeter to refine gunpowder, Yong Wang's old ministry used ancient alchemy to counterattack, and Su Waner's missing father left the formula to subvert the empire in the Zhongnan Mountain mines. Li Yang gradually discovered that his time travel was no accident - the Arabic numerals on the wall of the well, the military map in the ice mirror, the glowing cinnabar mole behind Su Waner's ear, every clue pointed to the same answer: this war was designed for him.
When the city of Chang'an was dyed red by rockets, when Su Waner showed her Anxi Army tattoos all over her back, and when the Pisces jade pendant exploded into gold powder all over the sky, Li Yang finally understood: What he wanted to save was not himself, but to use modern wisdom to ignite the unfinished beacon on the old ruins.
The most sadistic twist: Su Waner's approach to him was a mission from the beginning. But the blood she shed when she blocked his arrow was real.
The most explosive truth: Li Yang is not a time traveler. He is the chosen "key", carved on the stone wall of Zhongnan Mountain thousands of years ago.
They failed to prevent the Anshi Rebellion, but used saltpeter and love to rebuild a prosperous age in blood and fire. Sixteen years of war, a legend of business. When the Pisces jade pendant cracked, what they saw was the last and brightest dawn of the Tang Dynasty.
