My name is Xu Jiulin, I am an ordinary person who came from time-travel, and I am also a person who wants to pursue immortality. "Returning home" is my only wish in this life.
They call me the National Master, they call me a demon, they call me a fairy...
In fact, I am just a person who does not want to die, a mortal who wants to live forever.
I sent away Zheng He, sent away Yu Qian, sent away Qi Jiguang, and sent away the sixteen monarchs who ascended the throne and proclaimed themselves emperors in the Ming Dynasty.
All my close friends and old friends who have been with me for half my life have returned to the loess. The fireworks of the once prosperous age have disappeared into smoke. Only I am still standing where I am.
I will always look like I was in my twenties, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, a Taoist robe, handsome but not feminine, majestic but not sharp. The years have only carved vicissitudes in my eyes, and have not changed my appearance or figure in the slightest.
Half of my life I spent with the ups and downs of the dynasty, and the other half of my life I spent in human affairs: co-planning the dynasty's new policies and helping the dynasty with Zhang Juzheng, lying drunkenly in the south of the Yangtze River with Tang Bohu to enjoy the misty rain, sitting quietly with Wang Yangming discussing Taoism and talking about one's mind, accompanying Li Shizhen to taste hundreds of herbs and study pharmacology, and accompanying Xu Xiake to travel thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.
Get to know the Ming Dynasty's civil servants, generals, and talented people, and become a mortal passerby who only guards his immortality, and see the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty.
My name is Xu Jiulin, and I am a person who seeks immortality. I don't know whether this immortality is lucky or unfortunate, and my wish is to "return to my hometown"... But this "hometown" seems to be always with me, so how can I talk about "returning"?
