From Beggar to Crown Prince: I Usurped the Jin Dynasty

Within Luoyang, a city of birdsong and dancing, where songs and festivities seem to reign forever, all is outwardly calm and still as water. Behind the scenes, however, treacherous currents swirl and murderous plots abound.

Ma Zhengdu, perhaps the unluckiest transmigrator in the world, becomes a beggar. On the verge of starving to death, he is thrust into the position of crown prince in a conspiracy because he looks so much like Sima Zhong. Just when he hopes to make his mark, Ma Zhengdu discovers that he is constrained at every turn, and that even his life is not safe.

The sinister Prince of Qi, the overbearing Yang Jun, the vicious Consort Jia, the Eight Princes commanding powerful armies, and the Five Barbarians watching like predators... Those who covet imperial power close in step by step, leaving him no choice.

Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their stations?

If Sima Yi could seize this realm, then surely I can do the same...