[Two Male Leads + Imperial Examinations + System + Technology to Strengthen the Nation + Transmigration]
Chen Qi is born into the Zhaoming Dynasty and becomes the most despised “husband of a ge’er” among the poor.
On the night of his seventh birthday, the [Seeds of Civilization System] from beyond the River of Stars explodes into life in his mind. Formulas from mathematics, physics, and chemistry, steam engine blueprints, genetic keys… become his only stepping-stones.
He improves the spinning wheel so his mother no longer has to weave night after night until dawn;
He founds the Society for the Study of Things, printing “frivolous tricks and fancy gadgets” in the inexpensive Primer of Practical Learning, which poor scholars copy feverishly.
On the road to the imperial examinations, the great families call him “a disgrace to the family for marrying a ge’er.” He answers with a treatise, On the Primacy of Industry and Commerce, and wins second place in the provincial examination;
At court, the powerful denounce him for “using techniques to corrupt the Way.” In silence, he builds flintlock guns and ironclad ships on the frontier.
The new emperor he helped rises to the throne and promulgates the Imperial Constitution Outline;
Shangguan Yao, once his ally, founds a nation overseas and faces him across the sea;
The canals on Mars, visible in the night sky, are confirmed to be the final message of an ancient civilization…
Only then does Chen Qi understand the System’s fading words:
What he was meant to ignite was never the wealth of one family, but the dawn of an entire sea of stars.
