I! Kong Yiji, Creating a Century-Old Family

1901, The year of Xinchou, the last winter of the Qing Dynasty. Kong Rui woke up in the dilapidated house and found that he had become the impoverished scholar Kong Yiji described by Lu Xun who was about to have his legs broken. All he had on him was a tattered gown, an old inkstone, and he still owed 43 Wen for drinks at the Xianheng Hotel. The sky collapse begins! Everyone was laughing at him, waiting to see how this drunkard died that winter. However, this is not the end of the story. From Luzhen to Beijing, from Liulichang to Shanghai, from a shabby bookstore to a century-old plutocrat spanning culture, real estate, and finance... From Guangxu to Xuantong, from the Republic of China to New China, from reform and opening up to the 21st century... Kong Rui lived one hundred and fifty-two years. He spent his whole life planning, using his four-bedroom wife as his wings and seven generations as his branches and leaves, to create a family that would last from the late Qing Dynasty to 2026. This is not a story about a time-traveler's counterattack, this is a story about a time-traveler spending a hundred and fifty years playing a game of chess.