# Volume 1: Soul Transmigration in the Golden Age
- **Modern foreshadowing**: Li Mu is an unsuccessful IT engineer in modern times. Due to a car accident, he traveled back in time to the good-for-nothing prince of the same name from the Tang Dynasty, and found that the original owner was marginalized due to political struggles.
- **Initial talents**: Using modern knowledge to solve the Chang'an plague (alcohol disinfection), designing simple printing technology to spread agricultural books, attracting the emperor's attention.
- **Political Crisis**: The prince and powerful ministers jointly framed Li Mu for collaborating with the enemy, and the emperor was dubious and released him to Luoyang.
- **First Encounter with a Beauty**: Met Pei Mingyue, the daughter of a general, in Luoyang, and worked together to solve a water transport corruption case, establishing an initial relationship.
### Volume 2: The Rise of Eastern Capital
- **Economic Reform**: Implement the "commercial cooperative" model in Luoyang, develop the porcelain and silk industries, and introduce double-entry accounting.
- **Military Inventions**: Improved crossbows, created early gunpowder weapons, helped Pei's army put down the Shandong rebellion, and was awarded the title of Observer of Henan Province.
- **Struggle for Power**: The prince failed to poison the emperor and was deposed. Li Mu was recalled to Chang'an to assist the new prince and actually control the government.
- **Emotional entanglement**: Pei Mingyue followed him to Beijing and met Cui, the prime minister's daughter who admired Li Mu's talents.
