Hi, I’m Yuie.

Everyone told me Game of Thrones was the best story on TV. I tried. Too many names, too many houses, everyone looked the same — somewhere early on, I quietly gave up.

So when people say Chinese history feels impossible — a hundred kings, a dozen kingdoms, names you can’t pronounce — I don’t argue. I know that wall. I’ve stood on your side of it.

Then one night I told my husband a story I grew up loving. Two brilliant friends, one terrible betrayal, and the most patient revenge you’ve ever heard. I skipped the hard names — “a rising kingdom in the west,” “a legendary strategist” — and just told him what happened.

He couldn’t believe it. Not that it was good — that it was real. “This actually happened? And I’ve never heard of it?”

That feeling is why I started telling these stories. Imagine finding out your friend has never tasted melted cheese — you’d want to hand them a plate. This site is me, handing you the plate.

Here’s the part that still amazes me: China wrote it all down. For more than two thousand years, without stopping, each new dynasty recorded the one before it. It’s the longest continuously written story on Earth — ambition, bad luck, betrayal, second chances, all of it sitting right there. And almost none of it ever made it into English.

I’m not here to teach you history. I’m here to give you a taste.

Maybe you’ll love it and come back hungry. Maybe it’ll be blue cheese — not your thing, but now you know it exists, and you understand why some people can’t live without it. Either way, you leave with one more way of looking at the world. That’s the whole job, honestly: I translate experiences.

One last thing: I’m not a professor, and I won’t pretend to be one. I’ve lived in China and Japan, I speak English at home, and I look things up like everyone else. The channel is called History with Yuie because that’s the deal — we’re playing this world together, and I happen to know where some very good stories are buried.

If you like it here, stay. If not, that’s fine too. The table’s open either way.