The countdown to the book-burning order jumped before his eyes, and Qin official Chen Zhao knew that the cruelest page in history was about to open. The family development panel he carries is not a wishing machine - every technology unlock requires equal exchange, and every decision to take sides may ruin the entire family. From transferring classics during the wars at the end of the Qin Dynasty to dying of overwork and illness during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, he left only five words on his deathbed: "Protect the cultural heritage, and make peace with the common people." Since then, this panel has been circulated for fifty-five generations. Each generation of family head has its own character and predicament: some are talented and bold, while others are mediocre and ignorant; the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Disaster of Hou Jing, the Fire of Anshi, and the Disgrace of Jingkang... In the past two thousand years, the family has been on the verge of extinction countless times, but it has never let go of those books. This is not a cool article about fighting for world supremacy, but an epic about modern people using the fate of a family to leave a spark for civilization under the iron heel of imperial power.
