What?! I'm the One Who'll Unite the Seven Kingdoms

Chen Yan, a second-year graduate student in history and archaeology at Yanda University, is interning at the ruins of Yanxiadu in Yixian County, Hebei, when he unexpectedly discovers a bronze token engraved with the words “Mandated by Heaven” and celestial patterns. The moment he touches it, a blinding light engulfs him, and he transmigrates to the wilderness along the Yan-Zhao border at the end of the Warring States period, in 242 BCE, the first year of King Xiao of Yan. As soon as he arrives, refugees armed with wooden clubs and stone axes surround him and try to kill him. On the brink of death, the “Order of Heaven and Earth System” activates, issuing the beginner quest “Survive” and providing rewards including temporary basic swordsmanship, permanent fluency in the language of the Warring States, a first-aid kit, and a lighter. Using the “divine fire” of the lighter to intimidate the refugees and swordsmanship to fight back, Chen Yan drives them off. He then confirms the time and place through the System interface. With war breaking out constantly and the State of Yan in decline, this modern historian sets out on an uncertain journey to survive in the Warring States period, determined to stay alive, adapt to the era, and find a way back to the present day. The connection between the bronze token and the System also leaves a mystery for the story to unravel.