Fang Siqing, a female engineering master's graduate born in the 1960s, transmigrates to the eighth year of Wude in the Tang dynasty and finds herself in the body of Han Mo'er, an overlooked illegitimate daughter of the Han family and a nineteen-year-old woman considered past marriageable age. From then on, two sets of thoughts inhabit one body, and this contradiction must find its place in the Tang dynasty. Forced into a marriage arranged to strengthen family ties, she marries into a powerful clan. Her husband, Yuan Wenzhao, is a man of both letters and arms. Again and again, she is swept unwillingly into political turmoil. To save her entire family, she has no choice but to unveil industrial inventions, beginning with steelmaking and chemical engineering and moving on to guns, ammunition, tanks, and cannons. Through famine, war, and the sweeping panorama of daily life, she uses her family's influence to guide the Tang dynasty toward industrial civilization. Yet her fate is full of twists and turns. The Yuan family is forced to defy the empress and flee to Australia. She loves and hates with fierce clarity, and never lets an injury go unanswered. She lives through seven reigns, including those of Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, and Li Longji, all the way to the An Lushan Rebellion. In the end, dust returns to dust and earth to earth. She fades like a bubble, swallowed by the mighty river of history. Praise or criticize as you will. Whether you applaud or condemn, I thank you all.
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