After Transmigrating Back, I Ruled the Modern World Like an Ancient Emperor

After gaming all night, engineering student Lin Fan opens his eyes to find himself a poor farm boy in the Great Jing Dynasty, with an empty home and starvation just around the corner. The government is demanding taxes, corrupt officials are as vicious as wolves, and he's in a dead end from the start. Luckily, his mind holds a complete body of modern scientific knowledge. With that knowledge, he bends the course of history onto a different track. It begins with a handful of pure white salt, followed by the roar of the steam engine, then railways stretching across the continent. He builds factories, promotes education, and trains a modern army. With steel and gunpowder, he rises from humble beginnings to the throne, personally founding a modern empire called Xin Hua. When the empire reaches its zenith and he stands at the pinnacle of civilization, all he has left in his heart is an endless longing for home. Marshaling the entire nation's resources, he finally opens a passage through time and space and leaps into the temporal maelstrom. When he opens his eyes again, he's back in front of the computer in his university dorm. The game has just ended, and only one second has passed. Now he is Lin Fan, an ordinary student, and also the emperor who ruled an empire for a thousand years in his memories. Foreign languages? He speaks thirteen ancient tongues fluently. Exams? A thousand years of wisdom gives him an overwhelming advantage. He intended to keep a low profile, but from the moment he returned, the sharpest eyes of the Ministry of State Security had already locked onto him. At the same time, an encrypted message from a distant point in time suddenly arrives on an old-fashioned bracelet on his wrist… This is a story about knowledge, civilization, and finding one's way home. It is the story of one man who uses the wisdom of two worlds to become a legend.