My Mountain Leads to Ancient Times

Su Che, 28, graduated from an agricultural university but ended up in operations at a major internet company. After three years of the 996 grind, his health check came back with warning signs. Then came three blows in a row: he was laid off, couldn't afford a home for his marriage, and his girlfriend broke up with him.

He fled back to his hometown of Qinghe County, planning to lie flat, but dug a black pottery shard covered in oracle bone script out of a dry well at his ancestral home: the Houtu Seal.

With the seal embedded in his palm, he became the domain lord of an area ten li across.

With a mere thought, the land obeyed; with a tap of his finger, dead trees bloomed again.

At first, Su Che only wanted to give his parents vegetables they could eat without worry. Instead, the county's morning market went wild for