Beloved by everyone + original plot and character settings + out-of-character characters + no golden finger + scientific tomb raiding + main story + slow-paced
After waking up, programmer Lin Yuan finds himself transmigrated into a four-year-old child of the Zhang family’s main line.
Good news: He’s transmigrated into the Zhang family, so immortality and the Ultimate are within reach, and Zhang Qiling is his elder brother from the main line.
Bad news: His father was the clan leader, but he’s dead. The clan elders are eyeing him like a pack of wolves, and he has to go tomb raiding for his trial at the age of four.
Even worse news: No golden finger, no System, no wise old mentor.
Lin Yuan stares at the book of Zhang family mechanisms, which is bigger than his face, and falls into deep thought.
Wait, who says I don’t have a golden finger?
I may have been a programmer working nine-to-nine, six days a week in my past life, but I knew my math, physics, chemistry, and biology inside out.
Mechanisms? Aren’t they just physics experiments from ancient times?
Poison arrays and traps? Aren’t they just chemistry experiments gone wrong?
The Zhang family’s secret arts? It’s not unreasonable for me to take them apart and explain them scientifically, is it?
And so the whole story starts going off the rails
Zhang Qiling is deep in thought before the Bronze Gate, and Lin Yuan offers him a spicy snack. “Brother Clan Leader, don’t be so emo. I’ve calculated this gate using the lever principle. We can just pick the lock with physics.”
Black Glasses teaches him tomb-raiding tricks, and he pulls out a homemade smoke bomb. “Brother Blind, that trick is so outdated. Watch this: Grade Nine chemistry, instant smoke screen!”
The clan elders force him to practice martial arts, and he rolls his eyes. “Elder, this inner cultivation method of yours has terrible energy-conversion efficiency. Want me to optimize it?”
Everyone thinks the Zhang family has produced a genius child.
Only Zhang Yuan knows the truth: I’m no genius. I’m just a STEM guy whose talents were held back by coding.
