Gu Heng studied ancient astronomy. He knew the Xin Dynasty would fall, Wang Mang would lose, and Liu Xiu would triumph.
He thought a transmigrator's advantage was knowing how things would end.
But when he saw the systems Wang Mang was putting in place with his own eyes, touched the markings on the bronze calendar discs with his own hands, and heard the court discuss standardization plans with his own ears
he realized he was wrong.
Knowing the ending was useless, because someone was rewriting the beginning.
That person was also a transmigrator. That person was Wang Mang himself.
And perhaps the history books' account of “Wang Mang's failed reforms” was never a joke at all. It was a covert war between two transmigrators, ending with one of them being erased completely.
This time, Gu Heng was the one being erased.
