[History / Transmigration / Ensemble Cast / Love of Country]
In 210 BC, at the Sand Dune Platform, the First Emperor is on the brink of death.
Zhao Gao and Li Si plot to alter the imperial edict. The remnants of the Six States stir, and the Qin Empire stands on the edge of total ruin.
As Ying Zheng lies on his deathbed, the one who arrives in his final moments is not Xu Fu with an elixir of immortality, but a “Bearer of the Flame” from two thousand years in the future, with only half a year left to live.
They are no immortals, but volunteers from a future Huaxia facing an existential crisis. To avert the end of civilization, they burn their souls and willingly cross the river of time, striving to rival the gods with mortal bodies.
The first Bearer of the Flame uses the mere six months of life he has left to treat Ying Zheng's poisoning, shatter the Sand Dune conspiracy, and show him what “Shenzhou,” “a century of humiliation,” and “an empire for all ages” truly mean.
When Ying Zheng watches the Bearer of the Flame burn through his life, then turn into motes of light and return to the river of civilization, this emperor of the ages finally awakens.
He no longer seeks the illusory promise of immortality, because what he has received is the flame of civilization bought with the lives of countless descendants.
The upheaval at Sand Dune marks the beginning: the First Emperor opens his eyes, and Bearers of the Flame follow one after another.
See how Ying Zheng, carrying the weighty glow of civilization's legacy, conquers the Six States, brings the world to heel, and turns Qin into an empire where the sun never sets!
