The Emperor Favors My Brother? Fine, I'll Head South and Become Emperor!

Lu Heng transmigrates as the Crown Prince of the Great Yong, only to be met with endless heartbreak from the start.

He campaigns across the realm, stabilizes the court, and wins glorious victories, only for his biased imperial father to hand all the credit to his incompetent younger half-brother. Years of patience earn him nothing but false accusations, suspicion, and distrust of his growing power.

With his heart finally dead, Lu Heng willingly gives up his position as heir and heads to Lingnan, the desolate region everyone despises.

After awakening the Cause-and-Effect Choice System, he plans with precision and advances step by step. He improves farming, opens mines and smelts iron, develops firearms, builds a navy, gathers refugees, opens trade with the South Seas, and allies with foreign tribes. He transforms the barren southern frontier into a prosperous kingdom, wealthy beyond compare and mighty in arms.

Without Lu Heng, Great Yong quickly succumbs to corrupt officials, an empty treasury, and crumbling defenses. Northern cavalry approaches the border, and the capital teeters on the brink. Only then do the emperor and his ministers, who once treated him with cold indifference, along with his hypocritical half-brother, finally realize their mistake. They humble themselves and send envoys to beg for aid.

By then, Lu Heng commands an invincible royal army and rules over half of a flourishing empire.

The old Eastern Palace no longer matters. He will personally take charge of this crumbling Great Yong and rule the realm as its sovereign!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.