I Ruled Six Dynasties and Shaped the Realm

Historian Liu Ming wakes up one morning in the body of thirteen-year-old Ying Zheng.

The boy in the bronze mirror has a tender face, and the ceremonial crown weighs like a mountain on his head. In his ears, Lü Buwei respectfully says, “Your father will manage state affairs on Your Majesty's behalf.” Behind him, the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji looks on with tears in her eyes. The court awaits his first words, unaware that the boy's mind holds the entire Twenty-Four Histories.

A line appears on the System: Tyranny Index 87/100. The index for Qin Shi Huang's lifetime must fall below 40.

The book-burning and burying of scholars must be changed. Fusu must not die, and Great Qin must not fall after its second emperor. But changing one law is easy. Changing an entire society is hard. How many meals the laborers on the Zhengguo Canal receive, what characters are written on the bamboo slips in Xianyang Palace, how to speak the first words in court: every small choice reshapes the empire that history has set in stone.

And this is only the beginning. After completing Qin Shi Huang's life, Liu Ming will wake again as Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Emperor Taizu of Ming, and the Kangxi Emperor. He will transmigrate through all of Chinese history, setting right every lingering regret.

Six lifetimes as an emperor, all to tell future generations: history could have been a little kinder.