A “sky screen” suddenly appears above the ancient world, visible only to people of the past.
A dispassionate System voice rings out across every dynasty, announcing the launch of the “Ancient and Modern Experience Program.” Ancients will be selected based on their modern-day fame to tour the present. Complete the mission, and their dynasty will receive high-yield crop seeds and farming manuals, without affecting the political situation of their original era.
When the first participants are announced, every dynasty is shaken: Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng of Great Qin, code name “Dragon”; Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han, code name “Phoenix”; and Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang, code name “Pig.” These three emperors, known to history as “the Dragon, Phoenix, and Pig,” set off at once, carrying the hopes of their entire courts.
Meanwhile, in the modern world, Lin Xia has just started working as a tour guide for the Ancient and Modern Cultural Experience Company. She chuckles as she looks at the task sheet on her work phone. “A high-end emperor cosplay experience? And they’ve even got code names like ‘Dragon, Phoenix, and Pig.’ These clients are too much!”
She has no idea that the “cosplayers” she’s about to host are the real deal, sovereigns of the empire. She also has no idea that the emperors’ shock at seeing the subway, supermarkets, and agricultural bases is being livestreamed through the sky screen to everyone in the ancient world.
A hilarious tour fueled by the culture clash between past and present, and a scramble for resources that could affect the livelihoods of every dynasty, begins now. Lin Xia just wants to finish the tour and get her bonus. The emperors just want to win rewards and secure their people’s well-being. Only the sky screen quietly records this extraordinary encounter across a thousand years.
