I’m a Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and You Want Me to Marry a Foreign Princess?

[Alternate History + A Prince Sent to Marry for an Alliance]

At the start of the Great Tang dynasty, after Emperor Gaozong's death, the ruthless Empress Wu Zhao usurped the throne and began slaughtering members of the imperial clan.

Li Ping, Gaozong's only surviving legitimate son, was sent to the tribes of the grasslands to marry a rising Turkic princess, an act meant to humiliate him, despite the opposition of the entire court.

Li Ping was practically laughing himself silly. He had thought he was in for thirty years of palace intrigue, like some melodramatic romance. But now the sky was the limit, and he could fly wherever he pleased. Just wait until I raise an army on the grasslands and rebuild the Great Tang!

But as soon as he arrived among the Turks, why did the khagan immediately offer him the throne, welcoming the new emperor of Great Tang and declaring that the Turks would be renamed the New Tang today? They were even going to crown him.

The generals in the great tent were all cheering too. “Our ancestors, we're actually Han Chinese! I have the surname Liu too. Hu Liu is still Liu!”

The Turkic khagan was practically laughing himself silly. He was just sitting at home, and rightful succession had fallen from the heavens? Raise the army, raise the army! What Empress of Wu? She's a usurping witch! Today, we'll answer the imperial decree and punish the traitor.