Office drone Ning Yuan wakes up to discover he died suddenly while working overtime and transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty, where scholars are revered above warriors and war is about to break out.
From the start, he’s a down-and-out nobody everyone can bully.
All he has in his pocket is a phone with no battery.
Other transmigrators: Radiating the aura of a born ruler, reclining with beauties in their arms.
Ning Yuan: “Boss, what’s the Wi-Fi password? Is it too late for me to quit?!”
Trying to find a signal so he can get home, he stumbles into an ancestral graveyard and is hunted by local strongmen. He jumps into a river to transmigrate, only to come across a swordswoman bathing, with her blade at his throat. He raises his phone to attract lightning and charge it, nearly getting roasted alive…
When going home becomes a pipe dream, he has no choice but to face reality.
He makes soap, launches mystery boxes, and opens restaurants, using modern business sense to build a commercial empire rich enough to rival a nation.
He invents gunpowder, trains a new army, and secures the borders, carving out a path through the chaos with the ruthless methods of a would-be warlord.
From a despised nobody to a regent with power over the entire court.
Before the Dragon Throne, the ministers kneel. Some cry, “Long live the emperor!” while others curse him as a traitor to the nation.
But he only glances at the phone screen in his palm, its light about to go out for good, his eyes full of loneliness.
“You can fight over your empire.”
“All I want is… a way home.”
