To an Engineering PhD, the Three Kingdoms Is Healing

A bloody age of chaos? The grand ambition of unifying the realm? Who cares? For a Korean office worker who has to be at the research lab by 9 a.m. tomorrow, this world is nothing more than an incredibly vivid free fishing spot—a lucid dream. After falling asleep holding metal tools he made as a hobby after work, he wakes up in the middle of the Three Kingdoms era. He only meant to help the suffering commoners by casually handing out a few modern-engineering-powered fishing rods and water purifiers. But then— “O great Immortal! You have performed a miracle!” Before he knew it, his loose pajamas had become “robes woven from clouds,” and he had turned into a legendary sage. To make matt...