As a dedicated public servant who had spent years on the front lines of anti-fraud work, Shen Qiao hated charlatans who dabbled in the supernatural more than anything.
Who could have guessed that he would wake up in ancient Egypt, transmigrated into the body of Setis, a boy about to be sacrificed?
To survive being fed to the crocodiles, Shen Qiao had no choice but to draw on his years of work experience and play the part of a charlatan. But he took the act a little too far, and somehow ended up as a priest of Ra, the sun god?
With no other choice, Shen Qiao took up the very job he hated most in ancient Egypt: every day, he woke up and pretended to perform miracles.
He called the building of dams and canals the will of the gods, and passed off modern medical knowledge as divine wisdom.
Before long, barren sandbars became vast stretches of fertile farmland, and ruined old cities turned into bustling marketplaces.
As time went by, a rumor began to spread along the Nile:
The priest Setis had earned the favor of Ra.
Shen Qiao scoffed at the idea. What divine favor? This was clearly the power of knowledge!
But could someone explain why, when he stepped onto the altar and prayed to a god who did not exist, Ra actually answered with a miracle?!
Had he transmigrated to the wrong ancient Egypt?
After his death, the cursed pharaoh Amenhotep XIV was denied the afterlife. He spent a thousand years in hopeless darkness and torment.
He could only watch himself lose his sanity, bit by bit, as he slid into the abyss of chaos.
Then one day, a young priest smashed into his tomb with a crash, and sunlight from a thousand years in the future spilled over his pale soul.
After enduring all sorts of trials, with the priest taking him for a fraud, a drunk, and a lunatic, the pharaoh finally realized that this seemingly devout priest was actually an utterly irreligious oddball...
And yet this priest who believed in no gods blessed the people in the name of the gods, and in return received their favor.
The heart that pain had nearly stripped of all humanity suddenly stirred with a little curiosity and amusement.
He decided to find himself some entertainment, transformed into a black panther, and went to the priest.
The priest thought he had gotten himself a docile black cat, and was having a grand time petting it and cleaning its litter box when the cat suddenly turned into a young, handsome pharaoh?
"Priest, to serve the pharaoh is your honor..."
Before the pharaoh could finish speaking smugly, the priest said without expression:
"Turn back. I said, turn back."
"..."
A righteous-to-the-point-of-evil materialist warrior gong x a deranged, morally chaotic, darkly mischievous shou
A handsome, pale-skinned Egyptian-Greek hybrid gong x a strong, dark-skinned pure-blooded Egyptian shou
A partly fictionalized Western fantasy version of ancient Egypt, inspired by the history of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ennead mythology
Western fantasy with nation-building and farming, slice-of-life at first, political intrigue later
Theme: Love along the banks of the Nile.
