Chapter 1 (Updated)


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Yang Jin, first born to governor Yang Fu and his wife Yang Cai, was born in 270 BC in a city of Kwan in Qin. Warring states period was living up to its name and the land that will once be known as China was being ravaged by war. But while a birth of a child to a minor governor was hardly an event worth notice, it would prove to change history.


Well being reincarnated into the body of a baby is a weird experience. I guess I should start to explain how something like this happened. One day, just like any other, I was just going about my business and going to work. Next thing I know I hear a loud screech and feel a heavy impact on my left side. I can deduce that I was hit by a speeding vehicle of some sort, or it sounded and certainly felt like it. But I tried to look at the bright side, I died as soon as I hit the building to my right and did not have time for any melodramatic moments to contemplate the meaning of life and what waits for you after death, so it was not all bad. No, it could have been much worse. But back to being a baby, I will spare you the details of how being born feels like. Let's just say I woke up to find myself wrapped in a tiny bundle in a hands of the woman I've never seen before.

She looked young, around 15 years old. She had black hair with two buns on the sides of her head and had a heart shaped face. She also had small lips, dark brown wide eyes and a slightly tanned skin, she was dressed in white robe. Next to her holding her hand and cooing at me was another person, a male teen to be precise, he looked around 16-17 years old. He had a handsome face, dark brown hair and bright brown eyes, he also wore a fancy looking blue robe.

Well universe or whoever brought me here, thank you for screwing with me like this, I was 21 years old when this happened. I'm older than my new parents, at least mentally. So thank you universe or whoever, you certainly have a flair to how you deal with a mere mortals like me.

It took my brain a few minutes to figure out everything that happened, while denial set in at first, including a pitiful attempts to pinch myself, I pushed it away to think on my next course of action. Or at least sometime in the future, because being in a baby's body does not offer a whole lot of choice on things one can do.


One month later

Well turns out I'm in ancient China, kind of hard to not notice with how people around me dressed and talked. When I started to figure out when and where I was, I prayed to all gods that I knew of. I was hoping that it's not any one of any warring states periods that ancient China had, but my prayers were wasted. How did I know that? Well I am a dedicated fan of all things history and it's kinda hard to miss that giant Qin banner right outside my window, that let me know which specific warring states period I was in. But I mostly recognized it from the anime and manga, Kingdom, I finished watching and reading as far as it got a couple of days before the whole reincarnation thing.

One would thing that a fan like myself would be excited to be reborn into one of his favorite shows, but I was not amused at all. Kingdom is a good read and watch, but this time period is not a good place to be in. During this time period in China the concept of total war is still widely practiced, so in every major battle people died by tens of thousands. Not to mention that there are some seriously messed up people, like Haku Ki. Haku Ki was one of the Six Great Generals of Qin, he buried alive over 400,000 Zhao soldiers after they surrendered to him, according to manga it was because he did not have enough food to feed them. I'm not sure if that happened yet but from what I've seen from the map in my new father's study, Battle at Chouhei, a battle at the end of which Haku Ki committed his infamous deed, did not happen yet.

I also found out that my new name is Jin, I was born into a Yang family, in other words my new name Yang Jin, since here last name goes before first. From what I picked up so far it turns out I'm a firstborn and therefore also heir to the Yang family. I also figured out names of my new parents, my father's name is Yang Fu and my mother's is Yang Cai. Tuns out my father is a person of considerable power, from what I've seen so far, everyone bows to him and greets him with respect. I think he might be a governor of the city, which actually will explains a lot. While from what glimpses I caught, the city itself is tiny compared to New York, which is where I lived before this whole thing happened, it is of decent size. Well it's my new home now and Yang family is my new family now. I guess being a governor's son now, having that Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Management will really help me out. I just got to wait a few years before I can do anything, but I'm nothing if not patient.


AN

Its not really a self-insert, but an OC insert. But I became an avid reader of SI for a while now and wanted to try my hand at it. I'm trying to rush through the background stuff to get to good parts, but do it in a way that you will still understand everything.

Once again hope you enjoy it, please leave a comment.