[Historical rankings · sky screen · parallel-universe ensemble]
When videos by a Bilibili knowledge-channel creator are simultaneously projected into the parallel timelines of the great dynasties
Qin Shi Huang puts down his elixir of immortality, Li Shimin rolls up the paintings in the Lingyan Pavilion, Zhu Yuanzhang sits bolt upright in his coffin, and Qianlong's “Ten Great Campaigns” suddenly lose their appeal.
A modern woman in a hoodie and headphones uses fluent, plainspoken language to break down five thousand years of history, making every detail crystal clear.
She ranks the ten rulers who lost their kingdoms. The rope Chongzhen used to hang himself at Coal Hill has barely gone cold when she holds it up and analyzes “why the hardest-working people are the scariest.”
She ranks the ten wrongfully executed generals. She calls Yue Fei's “unfounded charges” workplace gaslighting, and interprets Bai Qi's “Battle of Changping” as “the client suddenly changing the requirements.”
She ranks the ten greatest emperors. She runs the numbers on Emperor Wu of Han's “military adventurism,” then brings up Wei Zheng's comment feed to publicly debunk Emperor Taizong of Tang's “Reign of Zhenguan.”
She ranks the ten legendary women. She fills in Wu Zetian's blank stele, and finds a bug in Hua Mulan's “twelve years alongside my comrades.”
Every episode is a live deconstruction of history.
Every ranking is a public face-slapping of an emperor.
The dynasties can see the sky screen and the comments scrolling past, and can discuss and take notes among themselves, but they cannot interact with the screen.
Ying Zheng, Liu Che, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Huang Taiji… Emperors, generals, officials, scholars, and poets from every dynasty are forced to watch “a history lesson from the future” together.
It contains personal agenda...!