[A story about transmigrating with a script and becoming a county magistrate]
Other people transmigrate and make glass, copy poems, and marry princesses.
Wang Shen transmigrates and memorizes county records, repairs river dikes, and distributes grain.
The battered copy of The County Gazetteer in his hands records the fate of this land over four hundred years.
He knows who will die in the next epidemic.
He knows which river dike will collapse on a stormy night.
He knows the hunched old farmer was supposed to starve to death next spring.
But he also knows that history is more than cold words on a page.
The first time he walked out into the fields,
he saw those names become living, breathing people,
and made a decision:
This time, he would rewrite the script.
Destiny can be changed, but not lightly. The more you change, the heavier the price.
But he still picked up his brush and wrote the first line.
