Yan Said: I Have Been in the Ming Control Bureau for 70 Years

Yan, a modern best-selling historical novelist and graduate student in the Department of History, said that he accidentally coughed up blood and died late at night while working on a manuscript. His soul traveled to Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty in the first year of Wanli and possessed the body of a poor scholar with the same name and surname who was dying of poverty and illness. He carried with him the "Compendium of Materia Medica" from the future, and found a surprising message in the book: "You are not the first", implying that previous generations of time travelers have come to this era. As the orphan of the Yan family in Xianyang, a former criminal official of the previous dynasty, Yan said that he was facing a desperate situation when he was forced to pay for rent and was secretly pursued by the Jin Yiwei. Fortunately, Zhou Deqing, the master of the same clan, risked his life to protect him. He gradually uncovered the secret of the family being framed and executed by Yan Song, and the truth that the landlord Wang Fulai was actually the Jin Yiwei's spy. Following the clues, he found the secret order left by the previous generation of time travellers in the Hanshan Temple Pagoda Forest, and agreed to meet at the canal ferry; then he met Shen Lingyi, the daughter of the time traveler during the Jiajing period, who brought another future classic "Tiangong Kaiwu" and told the shocking secret: they did not want to change history, but to repair history. At the same time, they need to be wary of the mysterious force "Gatekeeper" who specializes in killing time travellers. Carrying a family blood feud, possessing knowledge that transcends the times, and being involved in the turbulent chess game of the Wanli Dynasty, Yan Shuo started out as a dying scholar, using "practical learning" as an edge, and worked step by step in the cracks of survival, power, war, and the power of historical revision, trying to find a path that was different from all previous generations of time-travelers, and finally changed from a bystander to a chess player, supporting the decline of the Ming Dynasty.