Five Thousand Years Behind the Supermarket Door: I Trade Instant Noodles for an Empire

A supermarket's back door opens onto five thousand years of history.

When instant noodles can win a general's loyalty and antibiotics can save countless lives from a plague, the meeting between a modern supermarket clerk and young Ying Zheng quietly shifts the course of civilization.

Watch gunpowder roar a century ahead of schedule, maritime technology make leaps forward, and Chinese civilization use a supermarket as its fulcrum to bring global resources together.

But disturbances in the space-time continuum are beginning to strike back. When history veers away from every known record, should they sever their connection and restore the proper course, or join hands to face the unknown and write an entirely new chapter in human civilization? Behind this door lies the ultimate choice that will determine the world's fate.