Others transmigrate and become kings, but Lin Yan gets the short end of the stick. After an accident, he falls straight back to the dawn of prehistory with his six-year-old little girl in tow.
He plans to keep his head down and take life as it comes, spending his days with his daughter. But the girl's imagination is one of a kind, and her unfiltered questions keep putting him on the spot:
Seeing Shennong taste hundreds of herbs, she asks, "Uncle, what does that taste like?"
Passing a Shang-Zhou sacrifice, she asks, "What is that big bronze pot for?"
Seeing Confucius traveling the states, she asks, "What is benevolence? Can you eat it?"
Passing the Qin Great Wall, she asks, "What is this really, really long wall for?"
Seeing Yue Fei's camp, she asks, "Uncle, are you Ultraman?"
As Lin Yan cleans up one mess after another, he tells her stories along the way:
How the Three Sovereigns opened up the primordial world, and how Yu the Great divided the land into nine provinces;
How he followed Laozi through the pass and witnessed Confucius and Mencius establish their teachings;
How Emperor Wu of Han expanded the empire, and all nations came to pay tribute to the Tang court;
How he saw the spirit of the Song and Ming dynasties, and the unyielding backbone of the Great Ming.
They travel through five thousand years of history, yet she is still the same adorable six-year-old,
still the little girl who loves to ask, "Why?"
Only now, her eyes hold a vast land,
and her heart carries the mettle of her ancestors.
Back in the present day, her teacher asks the class who knows this part of history.
Lin Nianchu raises her hand. "My dad told me about it."
Her classmates laugh, and Lin Yan laughs too. Everything she said is true.
It's so funny, this girl is so funny, I can't stop!