Tan Xuantong's Transmigration Journal: How I Struggled to Survive After Accidentally Transmigrating to Ancient Times, Searched for a Way Back to the Future, and Recorded Every Person, Place, and Curious Encounter Along the Way

Also known as: The Mad Cat Chronicles

Tan Xuantong, courtesy name Pu, is thirty-two years old. She holds dual doctorates in forensic pathology and the application of machinery to human beings, is an anthropologist, and is the highest-ranking director of Laboratory 196 (PUP). On March 18, 2635, she is conducting an autopsy on a victim of a time-travel murder. As she tests the body's age, the instrument suddenly emits a piercing alarm. She removes her gloves and hurries into the control room to investigate, but at that moment, a sudden magnetic storm causes her spirit to transmigrate. Her consciousness is forcibly wrenched away and cast into the Imperial Palace of Yan Jin in the year 645, in parallel universe 617.

A chaotic web-novel mash-up, encompassing every genre! Each one is dissected anew by Tan Xuantong's forensic scalpel:

Political intrigue? No, an analysis of the structural mechanics of local clans and central authority.

War? No, a combined experiment in logistics, geography, and group psychology.

Wuxia? No, an extreme case study of violence as a survival algorithm.

Cyberpunk? No, the alienated growth of technological philosophy in ancient soil.

Folklore? No, a living record of ritual anthropology.

#Sweet romance? No, no, no. It's the mechanisms of biological neural impulses and the chemical ratios of hormones.

Every genre is re-encoded through Tan Xuantong's "future perspective." This is a single point of view with infinite compatibility, a garbled code. The eyes of one forensic scientist are enough to dissect an entire ancient civilization.

A forensic scientist who has spent her life in the future, alone in her research into the meaning of "□□," remains lonely after transmigrating to ancient times, where no one can truly understand her future perspective. Tan Xuantong is your mirror. She explores intimacy, treating human nature as an academic experiment; explores power, through her contests with the Gao Chen brothers; explores existence, through the fusion of machine souls and human souls; and explores the ancient empire, taking part in wars fought with cold weapons, all while observing the world.

Theme: The collision between the rational understanding of people from the future and ancient society; the many facets of life and the conflicts of human hearts; the reconstruction of early Tang warfare and politics; and the fraught relationship between artificial intelligence and humanity, as they struggle over consciousness, emotion, and existence.