Zhao Yan, a forty-eight-year-old doctoral supervisor in archaeology, triggers a divine artifact of the Five Gods while excavating at Sanxingdui and transmigrates into the body of an eighteen-year-old transfer student at Tokyo’s Sakurahana Academy in 2045. Carrying five thousand years of civilization in his memory, this Chinese scholar with a thick Northeastern accent vows to correct every wayward interpretation of Chinese culture in Japan.
From the biological absurdity of kneeling until it causes hemorrhoids, to exposing how the Records of Ancient Matters plagiarized the Classic of Mountains and Seas; from turning kendo into “square dancing” to delivering a “tea-dust” knockout in the tea ceremony, Zhao Yan uses his enamel mug and hard archaeological evidence to make Japanese history class a grand face-slapping spectacle.
But his cultural corrections draw the attention of the right-wing Black Dragon Society. School beauty Hoshino Sakura becomes obsessed with the truth and is threatened by her own grandfather, the society’s chairman. Hayata Yuriko, a kendo heiress, secretly lends a hand to escape her underworld family. Zhao Yan must not only find the Sanxingdui artifacts scattered across Japan and solve the mystery of his transmigration, but also build a “student alliance” and spark a revolution in cultural awareness across Tokyo. Along the way, he also wins the love of the school beauties.
This is a dialogue between civilizations spanning three thousand years, and an ultimate showdown between Northeastern Chinese and Japanese-accented English. When the Sanxingdui sacred tree glows over Tokyo Bay and the bronze compass points to the Black Dragon Society’s headquarters, Zhao Yan discovers that the greatest cultural misreading is Japan’s collective amnesia about its “history of aggression”…
