Overworked Lin Zhou gets bound to the Imperial Sightseeing Tour System and is forced to become the personal guide of legendary emperors such as Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and the Hongwu Emperor.
When Ying Zheng points at a high-speed train and declares, “This is the pinnacle of the Great Qin highway system”; when Li Shimin comes across a meme about the Xuanwu Gate Incident in a livestream; and when Zhu Yuanzhang marvels at QR-code payments, these rulers from the height of ancient power are completely flabbergasted by modern society.
From first-tier cities to desert wastelands, from space launch sites to thousand-year-old temples, Lin Zhou takes the imperial tour group all over China. Their ancient ways of thinking drive him to the brink of a breakdown, yet when they shed tears at the sight of a prosperous age, his own eyes grow misty.
When Qin Shi Huang says, “My Great Qin has finally come to pass,” and Zhu Yuanzhang sighs, “The generations to come did a better job than I did,” a sightseeing trip spanning two thousand years becomes a stirring bond shared by the people of China.
This is a wildly entertaining collision between past and present, and a legacy of culture etched into the blood and bones!
