Programmer Qin Yu accidentally transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty and becomes a fangshi awaiting execution. At death’s door, he manages to fool Qin Shi Huang with an elaborate description of a “celestial device” (a computer). In no time, he opens the Great Qin’s first “Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets” in Xianyang Palace. There are no bloody power struggles here, only the opening notes of a civilizational revolution, played on keyboards and mice.
Knowledge from the future reshapes the past, setting off a collision between eras
Qin Shi Huang becomes obsessed with the TV drama The Qin Empire, Li Si uses Excel to streamline the legal system, and Meng Tian practices military strategy with the game Total War. The Mohist leader bows before 3D printing, while Confucian scholars fly into a rage over the online novel The Tyrant Emperor Falls in Love with Me. Armed with a “Cultural Dissemination System,” the protagonist upends people’s view of the world with a world map, saves countless lives with the Barefoot Doctor’s Manual, and even holds a Great Qin web-novel contest, inspiring people from the past to write for love, including Reborn as Lü Buwei.
A fanatic for cultural infrastructure, rewriting the course of history
From hand-cranked generators to “quantum Xianyang,” from fiber-optic cables beyond the frontier to undersea internet lines, internet cafés help propel the empire forward amid laughter and fun. But then come one crisis after another: the System’s energy overload, attacks by conservatives calling to “burn the books and ban the internet,” and the risk of history correcting itself after a time-space wormhole opens. When Qin Shi Huang bestows the elixir of immortality, the protagonist faces the ultimate choice between loyalty and finding his way home.
This is an adventure where a Wi-Fi password is traded for the elixir of immortality, and code is used to rebuild an empire. Come see how modern technology collides with a civilization thousands of years old, forging an unprecedented golden age for the Qin amid laughter and tears.
