I Asked You to Make a History Game, So Why Are the Ancients Taking It Seriously?

[Historical Instances] [Game Development] [A Cast Changing Their Fates]

The first player to enter the closed beta of "Guan Shi" died at Meridian Gate in the ninth year of Hongwu.

Everyone thought it was just the most realistic failure animation in a full-dive game.

Only Zhou Shu, a game developer on the brink of bankruptcy whose studio had just seven days of rent money left, saw a blood-red prompt appear in the backend:

[The Blank Seal Case has failed. Deaths in reality: 327.]

That was when he learned that "Guan Shi" was connected not to a database, but to real historical events unfolding in the past.

Seven beta testers entered the Hongwu-era Blank Seal Case. In ten days, they had to save 327 officials convicted over documents stamped while blank.

They could investigate accounts, run simulations, and write guides, but they could not transmigrate into the past and make decisions for anyone.

Every guide would become a secret dossier, a clue, or a dream witnessed by someone from the past. Whether to act on it was a gamble that people caught up in the events, such as Gu Weijin, Xu Sanlang, and Zhu Yuanzhang, had to stake their careers, their families, and their lives on.

Each round allowed only three strategies, and a mistaken choice could not be undone. Players could quit, but the people of the past had no way to reload.

The Hongwu Blank Seal Case, the Edict of Succession at Dune, the supply route at Jieting, the sea charts of Yashan, the three days of Jiashen...

Zhou Shu could decide which period of history to open, but he could not decide what choices people of the past would make.

If they cleared the game, history would change.

If they failed, those people would really die.