After Qin Shi Huang Read A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality

After transmigrating into the Qin dynasty as Fusu, the eldest son of the First Emperor, he gets bound to a [System for Courting Death] and is told that if his own father, Qin Shi Huang, executes him, he’ll return to the modern era with all his cultivation intact and enjoy eternal life!

Fusu is overjoyed! How hard can that be? He decides to let loose, put his rebellious nature on full display, and charge headlong down the path of courting death!

And so

The whole court urges benevolent rule? He whips out A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality in front of the emperor and hands it to the First Emperor. “Father! This is the real guide to immortality. Learn from Han Li: keep your head down and you can become an immortal!”

Officials impeach him for dabbling in strange inventions? He turns around and grows potatoes and sweet potatoes yielding dozens of bushels per mu, then sets up a furnace outside the gates of Xianyang Palace to brew “thunderbolts.” One little mishap later, the altar to Heaven is blasted into the sky!

He’s desperate to die, and keeps finding new ways to get himself killed. He mouths off to Zhao Gao and toys with Li Si, driving history into reverse, yet somehow leading the Qin dynasty down a path no one ever imagined.

Ying Zheng cradles the novel in his hands, then looks at the “rebellious son” before him, who causes trouble every day yet keeps accomplishing great things, and falls into deep thought. At last, one day, he grabs Fusu as he prepares to court death for the Nth time and says earnestly:

“Su’er, stop pretending. I know everything you’ve done is for the sake of my immortal cause and the Qin dynasty, isn’t it?”

Fusu: “...??? Father, let me explain. I really do want to die!”

Watch as this rebellious son, who wants nothing more than to die, somehow leads the First Emperor and the entire Qin dynasty on a hilarious journey of cultivation, setting off on an unconventional adventure of global expansion!

[Also known as: “Watching Novels with the First Emperor,” “This Rebellious Son Is Clearly Overpowered, Yet He Keeps Courting Death,” and “Your Majesty, This Immortal Qin Dynasty Has the Wrong Vibe!”]