Who Lied to Us for Five Thousand Years

Unemployed Xue Li sees his ordinary life shattered by a car accident, only to discover that his family's heirloom jade pendant is a Primordial Chaos shard capable of tearing apart an age-old deception. He learns that the man selling breakfast downstairs is Taibai Jinxing, the girl next door is a thousand-year-old fox demon, and even the city inspectors are underworld messengers. It turns out that all five thousand years of Chinese history, from Pangu's creation of the world and Nüwa's creation of humanity to the rise and fall of dynasties and the dawn of technology, have been a game orchestrated by gods, demons, immortals, and Buddhas. Mortals are merely pawns whose faith is harvested for power. Traveling through the chaos of prehistory, the turbulent Qin era, the glory of the Han and Tang, the wars of the Song and Yuan, the upheavals of the Ming and Qing, and finally the rise of modern technology, Xue Li encounters Chi You and Xing Tian, meets Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han, and befriends Li Bai and Yue Fei. Alongside rebel gods and heroes of history, he uses his mortal body to pry at the laws governing the Three Realms. As myth and history intertwine and technology clashes with divine power, the truth behind the shocking deception finally emerges: the so-called five-thousand-year shackle is rooted in the gods' fear of humanity, and is also a trial of growth spanning the ages.