Li Si and the Qin Empire

Overnight, transmigrate into a renowned prime minister of all ages, guiding the realm and stirring hearts with your words, helping the King of Qin unify China. What a glorious life!

But what if you transmigrate into Li Si when he is still a minor clerk?

He is not yet a prime minister, has not yet studied under Xunzi, and is still in Shangcai, Chu. His career has yet to begin, and his life is still obscure.

In short, at this point, nothing about Li Si suggests that in the next twenty-odd years, he will occupy center stage in Chinese history, play the illustrious male second lead, enjoy the best lighting and camera angles, and get the most close-ups and dialogue.

Will he continue to drift through life in a daze, or rise up one day?

Li Feifan, who has transmigrated into Li Si, faces this choice. Only after events have passed and become history do people discuss them endlessly for generations. National hatred, family grudges, partings in life and death, turning points of fate... No matter how heavy the past, history brushes it aside with a single, passing stroke.

If one day you really could return to the past, would you be strong enough to bear the fate of those people themselves?

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* Thunderous plot warning: a partially fictionalized setting.

* Ying Zheng x Li Si.

You promise me I can be The Outcast, and I will help you conquer the realm.

The male lead is an ordinary person, shoved into this role by the System. The System is no respectable System either. It spends all day snacking on sunflower seeds and watching anime, trading snarky remarks with the male lead.

Neither of them is chaste.

Brother Zheng will dismiss his harem for you? Keep dreaming!

Author's Note:

This idea came to me a long time ago. I wanted to write a story about gradual growth.

Could an ordinary person, even with the perspective of someone from two thousand years in the future, really make something of himself in the Warring States, amid the contention of a hundred schools of thought?

That is what I thought about, and that is what I wrote. Not every transmigrator can calmly accept a new identity. Power and glory always come with thorns and blood. He will be afraid, too, and hesitate at the crossroads of fate. This is the story of a small, insignificant person finding the courage to climb, one step at a time. He has very little, but he does not want to die just like that.

The System has a major role. Since the protagonist is an ordinary person, someone has to guide him. The System takes on this demanding task. It urges, pushes, and guides Si Si. In the early chapters, you could even say it's System x Li Si.

Brother Zheng is the official love interest, but he does not appear until the middle of the story. Si Si has known his name for a long time, but it takes five or six years to go from studying, to becoming Lü Buwei's retainer, to being recommended for a palace guard position, and finally meeting the King of Qin in person. And in the early days of their relationship, Si Si is merely a dispensable pawn. Only after he advances step by step to become the Commandant of Justice does he finally become one of the most important people by Brother Zheng's side, someone who cannot easily be replaced.

More than love, I would call it their making each other better. Whether they sleep together is not important. By the time the male lead chooses to walk alongside greatness and become a part of it, their story has already reached its fulfillment.

Theme: A single spark can start a prairie fire.