After waking up, overworked office drone Lin Yu transmigrates a thousand years into the past and becomes Zhao Defang, the “Eight Worthies Prince,” whose reputation in the history books was spotless, in the early days of the Song Dynasty.
Only, his situation from the start is far from ideal: his father and brothers are suspicious of him, the court is rife with undercurrents, and despite his reputation as a virtuous prince, he is an awkward, idle nobleman who seems to enjoy every privilege but is really walking on thin ice.
In his previous life, Lin Yu was a ruthless striver in the new century, well versed in the ways of “traffic” and survival. He puts away the ostentation of a transmigrator and turns his modern thinking into a gentle rain that nourishes all things: he uses project management to improve people’s livelihoods, economic leverage to quietly enrich the people, and information gaps to defuse one palace crisis after another.
From a “virtuous prince” nervously putting on an act, he proceeds with careful deliberation until he becomes a pillar of the state, truly able to protect his people and make his counsel heard by the emperor. He witnesses the mystery of the candle shadows and axe blows, lives through the political maneuvering behind the Chanyuan Treaty, helps Fan Zhongyan with the Qingli reforms, and also sees Wang Anshi’s Xining reforms... Every beat of the dynasty’s pulse is bound up with him.
As history’s wheels roll onward and the friends and rivals of old grow frail and take their leave, only he remains, silently safeguarding this civilization that is both familiar and strange to him, with a vision that transcends his time.
This is no simple power fantasy about court intrigue. It is an epic tale of a modern soul living out a different ideal under the name of a “virtuous prince,” in the cracks of a thousand years of history. See how Lin Yu uses wisdom and steadfast resolve to write his own immortal legend amid the tumult of the Northern Song Dynasty.
This book is very good, I hope the author will continue to update it
Novel writing is like documentary literature, there is no detail process, the use of machinations... "Work hard... Try harder... Finally achieved..." This is writing a novel, there is no climax and ups and downs, how can it attract readers?