A Slip Through Time: From the Start, I Hand-Built a Drone for the First Emperor

When the sound of a toilet flushing becomes the prelude to transmigration, Chen Yue discovers that history is the biggest game of all.

He is merely a junior employee at “Tiangong Technologies,” but after an ordinary flush, he is swept away to Xianyang in 221 BC. The Black Ice Terrace’s elite warriors take him for a sorcerer, and the First Emperor’s patience lasts only three sentences. With his life hanging by a thread, he unexpectedly returns to the present, bringing along his “toy”: a consumer drone.

When the buzzing “iron bird” takes flight in the great hall of Xianyang Palace, the eyes of the emperor of the ages reflect a shock beyond his time for the first time. From then on, Chen Yue becomes the most dangerous middleman traveling between two eras: trading Qin bronzeware for modern chips and batteries, and using knowledge from the future to arm an ancient empire.

But the greed for power never changes with the times. As swarms of drones blot out the sky and Qin’s black dragon banners rise over unfamiliar shores, Chen Yue suddenly realizes: can he close the Pandora’s box he opened with his own hands? And the Black Ice Terrace commander secretly watching his every move seems to have discovered the secret of the doorway through time as well…