Fangxiang is a modern history student with no sense of direction—literally. His name means “Direction,” yet he is always getting lost. When a university picnic leads him to fall into a hidden cave containing mummified Japanese soldiers and a rare military flag bearing a sixteen-petaled crest, Fangxiang never expects that a single kick to one of the mummies will hurl him back to the year 1937, straight into the raging Battle of Shanghai. Trapped in the body of a Nationalist (Kuomintang) army company commander, Fangxiang is forced to shed his student naïveté. Armed with historical knowledge and an Arisaka Type 97 sniper rifle he discovers, he must lead his men in defending the seized headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps. Under relentless naval artillery fire and brutal bayonet charges, Fangxiang realizes that history is not merely text on a page—it is blood spraying through the air and comrades dying at his side. In a world where a “veteran” is someone who survives more than three days, this directionless man must find his path—either to avenge his nation or to be buried in the ashes of the history he once studied.