Will the Qin Dynasty Fall in Its Second Generation Today?

Synopsis One: From the King of Qin's Perspective

Year Nine of King Zheng of Qin's reign.

The King of Qin left the Great Zheng Palace in a foul mood. He had killed Lao Ai's two illegitimate sons and made the Queen Dowager suffer, but none of it was enough to soothe the wound in his heart.

On the carriage back to Qinian Palace, he heard a voice claiming to be a System. He dismissed it and thought he must have imagined it.

So when he returned to his sleeping quarters and saw his two-year-old eldest son speaking to him with an expression utterly unlike a child's, saying that the Yellow Emperor and Guang Chengzi had come to see him, the King of Qin wondered whether he really was hallucinating.

Or perhaps... that audacious fangshi was pretending to be the Yellow Emperor and Guang Chengzi to deceive his son?

Synopsis Two: From Fusu's Perspective

Life is precious, love is dearer still. But for freedom, both can be cast aside.

The story of the puppet Fusu's pursuit of his true self.

He never regrets becoming Fusu, but that's all.

Flowers bloom again, but no one is ever young twice. After countless cycles of reincarnation, he can never again be the person he was before he died.

Content warnings and notes

① This story is connected to my upcoming novel, A New Era in the Underworld.

② This is entirely fictional and takes place in a parallel world of the Qin dynasty.

③ Fusu's early experiences are based on Records of the Grand Historian, but society shapes people. The protagonist Fusu in this story could never be the Fusu of the Records of the Grand Historian. Please don't read if that bothers you.

④ Whether a character is good or bad, right or wrong, depends closely on their standpoint.

⑤ This is the story of a supporting character, Fusu.

Theme: In times of prosperity or decline, it is always the common people who suffer.