Quantum physics doctoral student Lin Zhou wakes up to find himself in the capital of the State of Yan during the Warring States period, hailed as a “heaven-sent wonder.”
The bronze token he clutches, engraved with “Yan Zhao’s Golden Terrace,” is more than a keepsake from another time. It is a solemn contract.
With the State of Yan on the brink of collapse and King Zhao of Yan desperate for talent and yearning to avenge past humiliations, Lin Zhou knows he can never return home.
So he decides to use three things to reshape this turbulent age:
1. Scientific thinking far ahead of its time: From the lever principle and basic chemistry to sanitation, disease prevention, and standardized production, he will bring about a “technological explosion” two thousand years early.
2. His “all-knowing” view of history: Through diplomacy and battlefield strategy, he will help King Zhao of Yan forge an army of wolves and tigers capable of sweeping across the Six States.
3. A devoted heart, eager to “repay his lord”: The Golden Terrace has been built, and good birds choose good trees to nest in. This time, he will use steel and fire to pave an unprecedented road to hegemony for a ruler destined to be remembered for the ages.
From improving farm tools to founding an academy of sciences, from smelting steel to designing “special forces,” watch how a modern engineer in the Warring States era uses PowerPoint and equations to turn the heroic vow “Repay my lord at the Golden Terrace, and raise my jade blade to die for him” into reality!
