Swapping Lives: From a Poor Family's Ruined Son to a Rogue Imperial Tutor

A top modern-day chemistry PhD unexpectedly switches lives with his past incarnation.

Starting out as a spendthrift son from a poor family, he uses seawater to make salt and a career System to build factories in ancient times, becoming the richest man in the land.

The System offers many career choices and paths for growth. He changes careers from the richest man to a top county magistrate, then to a rogue imperial tutor.

Over several years, he builds his own idyllic paradise. He plans to live out his days there as a local emperor, free and easy.

In the eighteenth year of Yuan'an, the Great Yuan Emperor travels incognito and unexpectedly arrives in Yuncang County.

"What's a flush toilet?"

"And what is a mirror?"

"Wait, is that an airship flying in the sky?"

The Yuan Emperor exclaims, "Such wonders belong in heaven!"

Later, the Ming Emperor returns to Yuncang County with the crown prince...

An alternate history, a rise to the pinnacle of power, mastery of court politics, and marriage to the foremost military princess.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.