Five Thousand Years Behind the Supermarket Door: I Trade Instant Noodles for an Empire

A supermarket’s back door opens onto five thousand years of history.

When instant noodles can win a general’s loyalty and antibiotics can save countless lives from a plague, the meeting between a modern shop assistant and the young Ying Zheng quietly shifts the course of civilization.

Watch as gunpowder roars a century early, navigation technology makes great leaps forward, and Chinese civilization uses a supermarket as its fulcrum to bring the world’s resources together.

But disturbances in time are beginning to take their toll. When history strays from every known account, should they cut off contact and restore the proper course, or join hands to face the unknown and write a new chapter for human civilization? Behind this door lies the ultimate choice that will change the fate of the world.