A clap of thunder sends Chen Yue tumbling from the modern era to the early Xia dynasty. His body is immortal and everlasting, but Heaven and Earth bind him with an ironclad law: history cannot be changed in the slightest.
From the wild, loess lands where Yu the Great tamed the floods to modern society, he has traversed more than four thousand years.
Muye, Changping, Red Cliffs, Feishui, Yashan, the First Sino-Japanese War, Songhu... He has personally fought in every battle recorded in the history books, great and small. He has stood shoulder to shoulder with soldiers, covered in blood, yet he could never prevent the defeats that were already fated.
Every famous minister, fierce general, treacherous official, and emperor in the Twenty-Four Histories has met and talked with him: discussing the Great Way with Confucius, drinking strong liquor with Xiang Yu, listening to Han Xin speak of his ambitions, watching Zhao Gao seize power, standing with Yue Fei at Fengbo Pavilion, witnessing Yuan Chonghuan's tragic song at the execution ground, and seeing Li Hongzhang stand alone to prop up a shattered land.
Loyal ministers confide their ideals to him, while treacherous officials reveal their private thoughts. Everyone has a voice, and every one of them feels real.
He can offer counsel, run from place to place, and risk his life to save people, but the wheel of history crushes everything. All resistance is futile.
Immortality is no gift. It is an eternity of solitude, a cruel punishment. Everyone in this world lives for only a few decades, while he alone watches dynasty after dynasty rise and fall, bearing the full weight of Huaxia's fortunes and misfortunes as he walks the long road of five thousand years by himself.
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