Liu Ji (1800 added)

"Liu Ji! Liu Ji!"

A hazy sense of weightlessness washed over him as countless lights and shadows flitted before Liu Ji's eyes.

"I... I..."

He struggled to lift his eyelids and felt the jolting beneath him. In a dry, hoarse voice, he asked, "What... what's going on? No... where is this?"

He had originally been an online writer. He vaguely remembered seeing a yellow-skinned gourd at a street stall yesterday. He had taken a fancy to it and bought it.

Then, while he was holed up at home typing away, everything suddenly went black before his eyes. When he woke up again, he was here.

The sky was dim, and the surrounding trees were gnarled like monstrous hands.

Beneath his body lay a layer of soft straw, jostling without pause.

He seemed... to have been placed in a horse-drawn carriage and was being transported?

Just as Liu Ji was wondering about this, a huge, pitch-black face leaned right up to his eyes, breaking into a delighted grin. "My lord is awake! My lord is awake!"

"Who are you?"

Liu Ji jumped in fright and blurted out the question.

"My lord, it's me, Fan Kuai!" the big man said anxiously. "My lord was unhorsed after suffering defeat in battle. You must have injured your head and lost your wits!"

"Fan Kuai? Then I'm Liu Bang!"

Liu Ji made a quip, but suddenly sensed that something was wrong. Another set of memories surfaced in his mind.

The Qin Empire, the lands of Feng and Pei, rebel forces...

"I... You weren't calling me Liu Ji before, but... Liu Ji? I... I'm Liu Bang? I transmigrated?"

As an online novelist, he was certainly no stranger to the concept of transmigration.

Liu Ji collected himself, looked at the other people surrounding the carriage, and asked,