From Good-for-Nothing Prince to Ruler of the World

Modern office worker Xiao Jingyan dies suddenly at his desk while working overtime. When he opens his eyes, he has become the least noticeable “good-for-nothing Sixth Prince” of the Great Yong Dynasty. His birth mother died young, his talents are mediocre, and in a palace crawling with wolves, even falling into the water looks like an “accident.”

Other people transmigrate with a System. He has only his modern knowledge and a keen understanding of human nature.

While the other princes compete over their martial arts realms, he secretly launches a full-scale infrastructure drive in his fiefdom: improving the curved-shaft plow to triple the harvest, and using crude gunpowder charges to leave the steppe cavalry reeling...

Palace intrigue? He plays on the information gap to manipulate people, turning the Crown Prince’s schemes into open confrontations and making the sinister Second Prince his stepping stone.

Martial cultivation? He uses modern biomechanics to optimize the flow of internal energy, training his “good-for-nothing” body into the Celestial Realm. He even helps his cool and aloof Shadow Guard heroine complete her damaged technique, and wins over the sharpest blade of them all.

From scraping by in the Jade-Breaking Pavilion in Yongjing, to rising in his Liangzhou fiefdom, to sweeping across the steppe, conquering the Western Regions, crossing east to the island nations, and launching an expedition to a strange continent thousands of miles away...

Wherever his iron cavalry goes, it brings a unified written language and system of weights and measures, as well as the beginnings of “equality for all.”

“Your Majesty, the steppe tribes have surrendered and are willing to adopt ‘Huawen’ as their common written language!”

“Your Majesty, the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions have presented their maps and submitted. They ask to open a ‘Celestial Works Institute’ to learn how to build giant ships!”

“Your Majesty, overseas provinces have been established on the great continent. The locals say, ‘We want to learn Huawen and grow new crops!’”

Xiao Jingyan gazed at the map of his vast empire. Beside him, Shen Qingli pointed her sword toward the world. “Who else refuses to submit?”