Chronology of Qingshan: I Have Been in This World for Thousands of Years

An "ordinary person" who lived from the Qin Dynasty to 2026, the only thing he learned in the long years was to try not to be discovered by history. —— My name is Li Qingshan, an ordinary person living in 2026. At least, that's what it says in the medical records. But my memory says I have lived for more than two thousand years. I remember the smell of burning books outside Xianyang City, the market price on the back of the Yangzhou Salt Shop's account book, and the jar of crispy plums pickled during the rainy season in Lin'an City. I remember how I bandaged the wounded soldiers in Han Xin's army, how I translated contracts for the foreign merchants of the Thirteenth Industry, and how I repaired the Soviet machine tool that kept breaking down in the old factory building in the Northeast. I remember too many things that I shouldn't remember. The doctor said this was "delusional recollection disorder" and recommended that I be hospitalized for observation. Until I fluently wrote a translation of a lost medical note from the Warring States Period without any study; until I subconsciously hummed a nursery rhyme I had never heard before in the dialect of the Song Dynasty that had long since been lost. I started writing it all down. From those tiny waves that try to become "human" but are always swept up by the torrent of history; To those moments when you just want to live quietly, but inadvertently become a tiny scratch on the gear; In the end, between memory and reality, immortality and the ordinary, the choice that must be made—— If this long life is just a grand delusion, Why every heartbeat, All with echoes of two thousand years?