I'm Liu Xiaohai, a 41-year-old programmer. My parents are both from the countryside. I worked hard to get into a third-rate university, dreaming of making something of myself, and after graduation I went to Kyoto to toil away and build a career.
At 28, I was conned into starting a business. I lost 250,000 yuan, broke up with my girlfriend, couldn't afford a house, and stayed single until I was 40. In IT, programmers are unwanted once they turn 40. I have neither experience at a major tech company nor the prestige of a top university. Once I passed 40, I was out of a job.
After a year and a half of looking for work with nowhere to turn, I had no choice but to take a desperate gamble and sign up for the Mars exploration program. I'd sell my life for 200,000 yuan and leave it up to fate whether I lived or died.
“The rocket's caught in a spacetime turbulence storm. It's about to explode. I'm going to die!”
“Huh? What's this cloud of gray gas? How did it take me through a spacetime tunnel?”
This is the story of an IT programmer who joins a failed Mars exploration mission, accidentally transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, and becomes the most dashing swordsman in the empire.
