Three Kingdoms: Guan Yu Kicked Me Out from the Start

This book is a slow burn.

After Chen Du dies suddenly, he transmigrates to Shenzhou Island. Neon lights line the streets, and people carry flip phones and drive old Toyotas. Thinking he has landed on a Hong Kong movie set, he turns around and sees Liu, Guan, and Zhang in the backyard, cooking hotpot on an electric burner and writing their Oath of the Peach Garden. Only then does he realize he has fallen into a modern-day version of the Three Kingdoms. He sneaks a look at the pork-lard cultivation manual Guan Yu left on the checkout counter and, by sheer coincidence, awakens a metal ability just like Magneto's: he can bend spoons, rip off bumpers, and control rebar and sheet metal. But after running his mouth and flirting with Liu Wan twice, he gets doused with cold water both times. Liu Yuanqi raps his cane on the ground, and Liu Bei tearfully escorts him out of Jing Street. With travel money Guan Yu slipped him and Cao Cao's business card in his pocket, Chen Du heads alone to join the Cao Corporation. Starting as a warehouse clerk, he works his way up and gets caught up in the Yellow Turban uprising, the Guandu docks, the Battle of Red Cliffs, and the Wancheng massacre. In this neon-lit underworld where the lights never go out, he forges a metal path all his own.