Qin Gao

[Transmigration, Warring States, Mohism, political intrigue, war, Chinese identity]

He is called Qin Huai, and also Jing Nan: the ninth Grand Master of the Mohists, Director of the Imperial Household of Great Qin, and the minister most trusted by Qin Shi Huang.

He and his wife, Xie Ying, were two modern university seniors who transmigrated to the late Warring States period.

Through a twist of fate, they ended up in the Shanglin Park of Xianyang in the third year of King Zheng of Qin’s reign. From the start, they crushed Zhao Gao to death. From then on, they changed history step by step.

They improved farming tools, expanded access to education, abolished slavery, standardized weights and measures, minted coins, and established institutions of higher learning. The ingenious arts of the Mohists and millennia of Chinese wisdom shone with an unprecedented brilliance in this age of great upheaval.

But the inertia of history and the influence of the transmigrators became intertwined. The bloody storm of the witchcraft scandal, the endless assassinations ordered by King Xiong Yin of Chu, Li Mu’s transformation into a warlord and the theory of China’s divine mandate, the mysterious curved blades of the Western Regions, and the truth behind the divine dragon and sacred beasts mending the rift in the heavens... Dark currents swirled through the court of Great Qin, while powerful enemies surrounded it beyond the battlefield.

At the start of the ninth year of King Zheng’s reign, after the twenty-two-year-old Ying Zheng came of age and took control of the government, the curtain slowly rose on the unification of the realm. What Qin Huai feared most was not blades or secret attacks, but the ideas and lies capable of tearing China apart for centuries.

What Qin Huai and Xie Ying sought to protect was never a dynasty, but the lifeblood of the Chinese people, enduring from generation to generation.