Watching Movies in Qin: Why Do Rebels Look Like Me?

In the twenty-seventh year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s reign, a heavenly screen descends upon the Qin Empire, opening with a ranking of “The First Traitor in All History”!

The heavenly screen wildly spoils the future: thirteen years later, a youth named Zhao Xuange will raise the banner of rebellion and bring down the Qin dynasty!

The First Emperor is furious, and the civil and military officials are brimming with killing intent, determined to find this traitor and exterminate his entire clan!

But when fully armed Qin iron cavalry escort that young rebel, who has plotted everything and is secretly stockpiling gunpowder, into Xianyang Palace...

The entire court falls silent as if dead. Li Si swallows hard; Wang Jian goes cold all over.

Because the boy’s unruly brows and eyes are practically identical to the young Emperor Shi Huang seated on the throne!

Ying Zheng looks at Zhao Xuange below, who wears a careless expression, then at the heavenly screen showing “musket fire sweeping away the remnants of the Six States” and “the sun never sets over the territory of Great Qin,” and falls into deep thought.

“If we exterminate the entire clan... wouldn’t that include me too?”

Zhao Xuange rolls his eyes. “Enough nonsense. The remnants of the Six States are about to revolt anyway. Are you abdicating or not? If not, I’ll take the troops and do it myself!”

After that, Great Qin’s style changes completely.

Hu Hai is sent to dig potatoes, Liu Bang becomes Great Qin’s top intelligence chief, and Xiang Yu starts questioning life itself while looking at the sky full of hot-air balloons and red cannons.

The civil and military court officials all kneel in unison: “Your Highness, please ascend the throne already. Stop tormenting us old ministers!”