Travel vlogger Liu Bai and his beloved dog Xiaohuangdou, famed throughout the Taihang Mountains, set out to explore Zhang Liang's Cave. A miraculous encounter in the hidden realm sends him transmigrating into a chaotic alternate version of the pre-Qin era!
His motorcycle gear is mistaken for foreign attire, and his strange belongings are revered as immortal relics. Barely has he arrived when he is caught up in feuds among the martial world and hidden currents at court. Rescued by Liu Jiao, he uses his modern knowledge of history and geography to draw a map that will help them evade danger. His remarkable wits see through trap after trap, but he is unexpectedly drawn into a secret quest for immortality.
He befriends the alchemist Xu Fu, saves the hero Ji Xin, and falls into a tender romance with the cool, reserved physician Yun Jiang. With the Xianyang Palace rife with sinister schemes, the quest for immortality becomes their only chance of survival. He offers Xu Fu a plan: use the fleet bound on a quest for immortality as cover to stockpile food and weapons and improve their craft, then set sail east from Langya Harbor.
They battle storms at sea and carve out a new home, building a fortified settlement on an island in the East China Sea. As the Central Plains are swept by upheaval, old friends reappear, and the secret of his journey through time is about to be revealed.
With the glory of ruling his own land on one side and the yearning to return home on the other, what will he choose? This adventure across time holds passionate loyalty, a pure romance, and an eternal question about choices and the way home.
This is a large-scale historical fantasy novel. The first chapter, told from a first-person perspective, recreates the landscape of the southern Taihang Mountains during the Qin Dynasty and introduces historical figures. The protagonist, the young poet Liu Bai, travels with Xu Fu through the various locations of the Qin Dynasty's Henei Commandery, Jiyi (Weihui), Gongyi (Huixian), the capital of…
Recreating the landscape of the Taihang Mountains in Qin Dynasty