Across ten lifetimes, he was always an insignificant nobody, left out of the history books.
In one lifetime with a brush in hand, he wrote only of the joys and sorrows beneath an age of prosperity.
Chen Guan, a history teacher, transmigrates to the Qin dynasty, only to find himself a convict laborer in wooden shackles, condemned to haul night soil until he dies. He has no idea that this hellish start is only the beginning of ten cycles of rebirth.
From the flames of war at the end of Qin to the setting sun of the late Han, for four hundred years he carries his memories and is reborn again and again. In every life, he lives in the cracks of history, an insignificant speck that will never be recorded in the annals.
In his final life, he lets go of his obsession and picks up his brush.
If they cannot meet again, then with the flesh and blood he has given over these four hundred years, he will write a history of the Han dynasty full of heart and humanity, truly belonging to the common people of the realm, and to the person he has searched for across ten lifetimes!
(Transmigration + ten cycles of rebirth + writing history from the perspective of an insignificant nobody: an epic account of an extraordinary search spanning four hundred years.)
