Great Tang: I Just Became Crown Prince, and the System Wants Me to Go Wild

Li Chengqian transmigrates into the body of Li Shimin's eldest son, who is only eight years old. The moment he wakes up, a System comes online: “You were Crown Prince for eighteen years, but your rebellion failed and you were deposed. Now you have returned to the position of Crown Prince.” But he's only eight, his legs are perfectly fine, and his birth mother is using the Xuanwu Gate Incident to pressure his father into naming an heir. The System has given him this mission far too soon.

At court, just as Li Shimin is about to appoint a Crown Prince, Li Chengqian drops to his knees and begs to be stripped of the title: “Father, do you really think I can hold on to it?” The officials are all dumbfounded. Li Shimin furiously kicks over a table, but Li Chengqian calmly asks him three questions: Would you save someone who fell into a well? If you use the wrong method to achieve the right result, does that make it right? Would you kill one person to save the world? He manages to reframe the Xuanwu Gate Incident as a matter of “survival instinct,” and turns the Crown Prince's position into a hot potato. Enraged, Li Shimin strips him of the title, then turns to Li Tai and says he won't appoint a Crown Prince for ten years.

The System's mission refreshes: Rebuild your relationship with your maternal uncle, Zhangsun Wuji. Li Chengqian clings to this foremost hero of the Lingyan Pavilion, figuring he can rely on him to turn things around in the future, while watching the countdown on his status panel: the deposed Crown Prince, aged twenty-six, has only eight months left to live. He has no choice but to take the throne as heir to the Tang Empire.

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