Lin Ye, a history major and notorious overachiever, works himself to the bone on his thesis and transmigrates, waking straight into a hellish scenario at the end of the Western Jin dynasty. He's now a “two-legged sheep in waiting” to the Hu people, with a blade already at his throat!
Luckily, the System comes online in time. Unfortunately, this “Civilization Spark System” is just entertainment for extraterrestrial “Observers.” It forces him to “revive civilization” while setting opponents against him: first, his unhinged ex-girlfriend Su Wanqing, now a Hu military advisor with a “Hegemony Support System”; then Hu princess Helian Mingzhu, a scheming green tea hiding her identity as a “processor”; even Jing Niang, the “wild girlfriend” bound to him, has been turned by the villains into a dormant killing puppet!
Fortunately, Lin Ye refuses to follow the script. He defends Pei Family Fortress with explosives, making Hu cavalry cry “sorcery!”; risks his life searching the snowy mountains for ginseng to save Jing Niang; powers up at the Confucius Temple, awakens the System, and takes on the “Variant Protocol.” Even “Zero,” a predecessor whose System crashed, comes to lend a hand. His motto: “You plot, I'll blow things up. You control puppets, I'll save her!”
Now Lin Ye has to escape his pursuers with Jing Niang, whose hidden bloodline is awakening, and take on the Hu people, all while toppling the Observers' game board. After all, who wants to be someone else's plaything? Even in a brutal age of chaos, you have to live with dignity, and keep the spark of civilization alive along the way. That's what makes it fun!
