My name is Xiao Bei. I’m an unremarkable landlord with a tiny rental apartment. My greatest dream in life is to collect rent, lie flat, and stay out of trouble.
Then I met an old immortal agent named Liu Laoliu. He thumped his chest and promised, “I’ll find you a batch of tenants with spotless pasts and excellent reputations.”
I believed his nonsense.
That very afternoon, Qin Shi Huang, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, Li Bai, Du Fu…
Emperors, generals, scholars, and poets from five thousand years of history all crammed into my shabby eighty-square-meter apartment.
The emperors fought over the main bedroom, the generals fought over the sofa, the scholars fought over the desk, and the poets fought over the booze.
They’d argue themselves hoarse over whether tofu pudding should be sweet or savory, nearly come to blows over the Wi-Fi, and spend half the night deciding what to order for delivery.
The emperor who once unified the realm now splits the utility bills with me;
The overlord who once conquered the land now jumps up and down over who gets the bathroom;
The poetic genius who once drank his way through Chang’an now crouches by the fridge looking for a cold drink.
A whole houseful of great figures who changed history now compete, bicker, stir up trouble, and crack jokes in a modern shared apartment.
And I, Xiao Bei, am the unlucky landlord in this greatest historical hotpot of all time, responsible for keeping everyone fed and housed and breaking up their fights every single day.
A friendly reminder: This book has no cultivation, no monster-slaying, and no saving the world. It’s just famous historical figures living ordinary lives and turning them into a hilarious comedy routine.
There were too many people coming out at once and it was too chaotic. It didn't have the sense of gradualness like the first chaos in history. The ancients knew the master bedroom and the second bedroom from the beginning. But in fact, the ancients' concept should be the main room and the wing room. Moreover, the ancients' attitude towards the thatched room should be to stay away from the main room. If there is a thatched room in the main house, the ancients' thinking should not be to grab the main room.