Tripped Into Time, Forged a Legend

Episode 1

A rogue is beaten to death over a noblewoman he shouldn't have touched — and wakes up as Miguel Stewart, a modern engineer trapped in that same worthless body. His companion Sihu is frantic; Sha Po has already delivered payment for finding a husband for a fallen noblewoman. Miguel's first move is confusion, then refusal: he won't sell anyone. He announces he's done being a thug, even as the men around him insist every man in Wangzhao City sells his wife. He keeps the girl and starts talking like someone from another century.

Episode 2

The woman has a name: Caiwei. She brings Miguel her egg money and begs him not to sell her into a brothel — she'll work, she'll earn, she just wants to stay clean. Miguel takes the silver and tells her to buy bedding instead, which lands awkwardly. He learns she's educated, a noblewoman fallen on hard times, and she learns he isn't like the other men. Alone, Miguel admits the truth to himself: he's been given a second life, and he intends to make it count. He vows to make his name known.

Episode 3

Miguel puts Caiwei to work washing corn and hauling barrels. The local wine is weak, he says — so he'll use distillation to make something strong. Sihu tastes the first batch and nearly floats away. Miguel asks what to call it; a joking name gets tossed around before Caiwei suggests a name worthy of the aroma: Drunken Immortal. Miguel declares that with this liquor he'll buy the whole city of Wangzhao. It's a bold claim for a man with a debt and no workshop — but the drink is real.

Episode 4

Sha Po comes to collect. She reminds Miguel that everyone in Wangzhao sells their wives, that Caiwei is just another girl, and that she carries a debt of fifteen taels of silver — money owed from her father's medicine. Sell her, clear the account, take a new wife. Miguel refuses flatly and warns anyone who tries to drag Caiwei away. Then he makes the gamble that changes everything: he'll repay the fifteen taels himself. Three days, he tells Sha Po. Come back in three days.

Episode 5

Sihu thinks Miguel has lost his mind — brewing his own liquor while broke. But Miguel has a plan and a deadline. He asks Caiwei to stay and help build the stoves; she offers to share his room, and he awkwardly declines, keeping the arrangement practical. Then he takes Drunken Immortal to the street. The first bowl is free, and the crowd goes wild — rich, smooth, nothing like the local wine. Orders fly. The last jar is already spoken for. Somewhere in the crowd, a tavern keeper is watching.

Episode 6

Zhou, the tavern keeper, tastes the new liquor and tries to play it cool — it's a little harsh, he says, no match for the old brand. Miguel doesn't flinch. He counters with a price of three taels per jar, and Zhou blinks: who in this city can afford that? Miguel's answer is simple — not the poor, but plenty of rich households and officials would drown themselves in it. Zhou caves, orders fifty jars, and pays a deposit. Then he shows his teeth: cheat me, and I'll send men to kill your whole family.

Episode 7

Word gets out. Ma Guaizi, the local rogue boss, summons Miguel — and Sihu is ready to fight. Miguel ignores the threat and instead hires cart drivers, offering monthly pay plus bonuses per trip. He lays it out honestly: this is a private liquor business, it will make enemies, and he wants men who'll stand with him. The drivers weigh it, then bow and call him boss. One condition: from now on, they follow his orders first. Sihu mutters that Miguel seems like a completely different person.

Episode 8

Caiwei has repaired the stoves and reinforced the courtyard wall, with enough firewood to last three stoves half a month. Miguel jokes that she must have studied civil engineering. She's caught a pheasant and offers it to him; he insists she eat at the same table, refusing the old rule that a woman can't dine with the family. He tells her to stop hauling firewood and stay to watch the brewing fires instead. She says she needs nothing — she's already happy.

Episode 9

Miguel gathers the Xu Family Workshop, now officially registered at the magistrate's office, and hands out uniforms. The next job is riskier: grain prices in the city are monopolized, so they'll have to buy outside the walls, where over a hundred thousand refugees are starving. If the grain is seen, it could be snatched clean. Miguel offers anyone scared the chance to walk away — but warns they'll miss the profit. They stay. Caiwei reminds him of the back alley route to the magistrate's office, and tells him to be careful.

Episode 10

Outside the city, the reality is worse than Miguel imagined. Starving refugees lie dead in shallow pits or on the road itself; some of the living are eating the bodies. The cart drivers want to bury them, but there are too many — they'd be at it until dark. Miguel sees the cannibalism and the bones stretching into the distance, and the chaos of this world settles on him. As night falls, the group risks being surrounded by the desperate. They press on, deeper into the danger.

Keep watching to see whether Miguel's gamble pays off — and who comes for the liquor money first.