Ying Yinman gets bound to a System.
The bad news: The System tells her that after her father makes an eastern tour, he'll die suddenly. Hu Hai will take the throne, the Qin Dynasty will fall in its second generation, and Hu Hai will have all his brothers and sisters buried alive.
The good news: This divinely granted System can summon people from the future to help her.
Ying Yinman: With divine power at my command, if I don't become emperor, who will?
From then on, Ying Yinman has a new goal.
She secretly builds up her power and advances the tech tree, waiting for the day she can pull that useless Hu Hai off the throne!
The first batch of players arrives.
"Wait, is this princess Ying Yinman?"
"Why aren't we bound to the First Emperor?"
"Where's Qin Shi Huang? Where's Qin Shi Huang? Where's Qin Shi Huang? I want to see Zheng Ge!"
"Girls, stop screaming. Our quest is to help the princess with infrastructure. Let's raise her first. Zheng Ge will show up sooner or later!"
"Got it! Raise the princess and build things! Then we can twist Hu Hai's dog head right off!"
Ying Yinman discovers she can't quite keep up with the way these heavenly soldiers think.
Some carve "I love you, Zheng Ge" into the walls of Xianyang Palace.
Some complain that the game's shop doesn't have a life-size First Emperor body pillow.
And a whole bunch of Squishy Sharks keep dying and coming back to life while repairing the Great Wall, forcing her to go to absurd lengths to cover it up.
She can't understand why these people are so obsessed with her father.
Aren't they afraid of him?
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The days pass in a lively rush for more than half a year.
Ying Yinman keeps feeling that something is off, as though someone is watching her with sinister intent.
She looks up at her father on the dragon throne.
Ying Zheng happens to look over at her too, his gaze heavy.
The System's notification sounds in her ear.
[Warning: The Host has attracted the attention of Ying Zheng, the Chosen One of this plane, beyond the threshold.]
[Binding secondary System...]
Late at night, the First Emperor of Qin stares at the blue screen before him, his expressionless face lit by its glow.
[You have been detected as the NPC players are most looking forward to meeting.]
At last, he understands what his busy daughter has been doing lately.
The strange people around her are actually from a thousand years in the future.
How dare they!
She has such divine troops and doesn't offer them to him?
Who would have thought Ying Yinman would be bold enough to come right to him?
Princess: "Father, an autograph!"
First Emperor: "My name isn't something I hand out just like that."
The princess says softly, "But that person can make cement..."
The First Emperor falls silent for three seconds. "Bring me a brush."
"Father, this player wants a hug!"
"Absolutely not!"
"Cannons..."
The First Emperor spreads his arms. "...If you can't build them, you're dead."
Ying Yinman watches the System's progress shoot up and is delighted.
She's figured out the instruction manual for her father!
Theme: Work hard on infrastructure and build a great Qin!
