Shackles and Stars

Shen Du is a slave. From being sold into the Jinling Zhou Mansion at the age of seven, to having the word "slave" tattooed on his left arm at the age of nineteen, and kneeling on the stone steps scrubbing moss, he never knew that "people" could survive standing up. Until the girl named Gu Changan descended from the sky, holding an imperial edict and a Si Zhiwei badge hanging on her waist, and dragged him out from under the knife of the Criminal Department. She told him: The talking thing in your head is called "system". I have it too. They are the chosen two. From the same erased world, thrown into the same historical torrent. The mission of the system has never been to help the prince investigate cases, bring down powerful officials, or get promoted and make a fortune - those are just appearances. The real task is to find the key variables to break the cycle of slavery before the "convergence point" of each world arrives. From the bloody dusk of the Jinling Mausoleum of the Yong Dynasty to the yellow sand of the ancient Roman Colosseum; from the prison barracks in the troubled times of the late Qin Dynasty to the sacrificial pyramids in the Mayan jungle; from the longships of Viking pirates to the cotton fields of American plantations... In the three thousand years of slave history, countless people have tried to resist, and countless others have failed. The cycle repairs itself again and again, as if there is an invisible force maintaining the iron law that "some people can possess other people." And Shen Du and Gu Changan were just two grains of sand thrown into this machine. They had no army, no wealth, no fame. All they have is each other, and a system that refuses to tell them the whole truth. But they have one thing that all the rebels in the past three thousand years have never had -...