The Way of Strategy in Great Jing

[Male lead's growth] [Everyday life] [No female lead] [Political intrigue] [No golden finger]

Hunted from the start.

His adoptive mother dies, and his origins are a mystery.

Sticky rice mortar, salt fields in Jiangnan, heading north to dig coal...

He helps his childhood friends become a top scholar and a general, secures secret guards to protect his life, makes money, and takes on powerful clans... He schemes at every turn, all just so he can live openly and honestly. Later, someone tells the emperor that the boy is plotting a rebellion!

Zhao Chen'an: "How can plotting a rebellion beat making money?"

Emperor: "My son is truly clever."

Zhao Chen'an: "What does the old geezer want me to do now?!"