People and Things from Those Time-Travel Years

黄小伟17K Novel Network2016

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Male-Oriented Fiction Alternate History Time TravelQin Shi HuangHuo QubingFatalismLaughter with TearsLight ComedyHumorous Tone

Summary

Unemployed young man Huang Xiaowei is handed a broken bicycle and a copy of On Time Travel by a mysterious old man, Fourth Master Li, at a flea market. The moment he gets on the bike, he is transported to Xianyang in the Qin dynasty. There he learns that the Heavenly Dao has taken a mischievous interest in tampering with history, and he is forced to ride this broken bike back and forth across the Qin, Han, Tang, and Song dynasties to correct the distortions. He encounters historical figures such as Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian, Huo Qubing, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Shangguan Wan'er, jesting his way through events like the surrender at Hexì and the decisive battle north of the desert, while gradually realizing that history ultimately cannot be changed. The story depicts the collision between daily life and history in a humorous tone, and ends with the old man recounting past events at the graves of old friends, evoking laughter through tears.

Editor's review

Suited to readers who like historical time travel, light snarky humor, and absurd daily life. The draw is putting historical figures like Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao into modern-life scenarios, with dense jokes and interspersed passionate and heartbreaking passages, and an ending that lands movingly. Weaknesses: the early part is heavy on memes and chatter, the main plot advances slowly, and some passages feel repetitive; the ensemble subplots sprawl, and the theme of fate only hits its stride in the middle-to-late sections.

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Reading tips

  1. Early on, relax and read it as comedic daily life; the main plot and emotional line unfold only in the middle-to-late sections.
  2. Pay attention to the foreshadowing of relationships among Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian, Shangguan Wan'er, and others; the graveside monologue at the end will hit harder.
  3. Read the preface and first few chapters first to see if you accept the style before committing to the three-million-plus-word length.

About the publisher

17K Novel Network

17K Novel Network (17K小说网) is a publishing platform centred on online literature, with 10,912 titles in its catalogue; publicly available information is limited, and its founding background and country or region are not confirmed. Judging from the existing titles, its publishing scope covers common categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, urban fiction, female-oriented fiction, time-travel and alternate-history stories, and selected fiction, spanning male-oriented cultivation and urban-life themes as well as female-oriented time-travel and quick-transmigration narratives. Representative titles include Deities: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start, Rebirth of the Nine-Tailed Superstar, Quick Transmigration: When a Max-Level Boss Becomes a Toxic Dad, Supreme Pill King, My Beautiful Wife, Chaos Tang, Wind Howling through the Jianghu, and Great Qin: My Inner Thoughts Overheard by the Ancestral Dragon from the Start, most of which unfold with the length and pacing of online serialization. Representative authors include Yang Zhizhi, Yuyi Tingbing, Xuanyuan Lvedan, Zhenyong, Manyu, Wuweijiu, Meng Qingxuan and Tianyan Junran, reflecting a publishing approach built on contracted online authors and organized by genre.

FAQ

Is this book the same as I Can Time Travel Through Those Years? No—this is the author's earlier version; I Can Time Travel Through Those Years only came about after a 2023 reset.
Is this book completed? Yes, it is completed, with an afterword and completion remarks following the main text.
Why can the protagonist time travel? The broken bicycle and the On Time Travel manual given by Fourth Master Li—behind it all is the arrangement of the Heavenly Dao.

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About the author

黄小伟 Author

Huang Xiaowei: publicly available information about this author is currently limited, and no clear record of personal details, nationality, or dates of birth and death has been found. One work by this author is known, Value-Driven: The Logic of Data Analysis Value and Practical Methods, which is classified under general computer science. Judging from the title and category, the book centers on data analysis, focusing on the underlying logic of data value and practical methods for putting it to work, and is aimed at readers who want to clarify their analytical thinking and turn data into real value. In style, it emphasizes logical organization combined with hands-on practice, placing it in the tradition of practical technical writing. Because only this one work is held in the collection, the author's other experience, writing trajectory, and overall body of work are difficult to outline, and the work's actual influence awaits corroboration from further sources; no excessive inference is made here.