I, Kong Yiji, Will Build a Family That Lasts a Hundred Years

1901, the Year of Xinchou, the last winter of the Great Qing.

Kong Rui wakes in a dilapidated house and discovers that he has become Kong Yiji, the impoverished scholar from Lu Xun's story, a wretched man whose legs are about to be broken by someone.

All he has is a tattered long gown and an old inkstone, and he owes the Xianheng Tavern forty-three copper coins for wine.

A disastrous start from the very beginning!

Everyone laughs at him, all waiting to see how this drunkard will die that winter.

But this is not the end of the story.

From Luzhen to the capital, from Liulichang to the Shanghai Bund, from a shabby bookshop to a century-old conglomerate spanning culture, real estate, and finance...

From the reign of Guangxu to Xuantong, from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, from reform and opening up to the twenty-first century...

Kong Rui lived to be 152 years old.

He spent his life laying plans, with four wives as his wings and seven generations as his branches, building a family that endured from the late Qing all the way to 2026.

This is not a story about a transmigrator making a comeback. It is about a transmigrator spending 150 years playing a game of chess.