The Warring States' Great Bluff: I Rely on Freebies from the Future to Pacify the World

In the final years of the Warring States period, the seven powers vie for supremacy as ritual and morality collapse.

Shen Yu, a refugee boy, unexpectedly awakens the “Twin Tracks of Time,” gaining access to every dynasty across five thousand years of Chinese history!

To survive in an age when human lives are worth less than grass, Shen Yu makes an utterly insane decision:

He forges a secret royal emblem and impersonates the last legitimate crown prince of the Great Zhou!

Short on money? He goes to the Song dynasty to copy its paper currency and to the Ming dynasty to learn its Single Whip Reform, using financial warfare from across the ages to bankrupt the state of Qi!

Short on troops? He goes to the Han dynasty to learn the Order of Grace, then to the Ming dynasty to build red-barreled cannons, crushing the foundations of Chu beneath an overwhelming tide of steel!

Need a system of government? He secretly borrows the Tang dynasty’s Three Departments and Six Ministries system, building the most terrifying central government right under the feudal lords’ noses!

The First Emperor is won over by his imperial statecraft, the Hundred Schools of Thought hail him as a heaven-sent sage, and the rulers of the seven kingdoms are putty in his hands.

The whole world believes the Great Zhou is about to rise again, but no one knows that this peerless “Son of Heaven” is a complete impostor!

Shen Yu gazes down upon the war-torn Nine Provinces. “If the feudal lords are unjust, then I’ll forge five thousand years of civilization into one and create an unprecedented divine empire from the ground up!”