The First Emperor Commands: Build Me a Galactic Empire

Materials science PhD Xu Pengyue wakes up in ancient China as Xu Fu's apprentice, ready to pull the classic immortality scam on the First Emperor. His plan? Sweet-talk Qin Shi Huang into funding a one-way trip to freedom. There's just one problem: this isn't the Qin Dynasty from the history books. When Emperor Zheng casually unfurls a star chart spanning galaxies and orders him to engineer an interstellar empire, Xu realizes he's in way over his head. Forget elixirs of immortality—now he's building spaceships for a tyrant who conquered Earth and has his sights set on the cosmos.