After transmigrating into the Great Yao Dynasty, modern-day Nangong Zhu Yiying became the legitimate heir to the throne, trapped by the emperor’s need to keep the court in balance.
On his wedding night, Qi Mingyue’s cold treatment brought him to his senses: this was not a world he could dominate with “modern thinking.” His only choice was to keep his talents hidden and use ancient political tactics to solve ancient problems. At court, he broke Nanzhao’s impossible tax deadlock with “land-based taxation,” only to be framed for “tampering with ancestral laws.” Behind the scenes, he used a secret from the peach grove to force Qi Mingyue to become his co-conspirator instead of his opponent, gradually tearing open a path out of the trap.
With his position as heir finally secured, a storm of reforms began. He seized the fief lords’ military power and abolished the ironclad rules of hereditary succession, striking at the very foundations of the old clans! But the emperor’s schemes and the clans’ competing loyalties formed a vast web. His elder brother was imprisoned for daring to remonstrate, and Qi Mingyue turned against him.
When all that remained of his “modern identity” as a transmigrator was his memories, Zhu Yiying finally understood: in this ancient arena of political intrigue, only by abandoning the “modern hope of an easy way out” and relying on native ingenuity and ruthless planning could he reshape the rivers and mountains of Great Yao!
Thus begins an epic struggle: a transmigrator adapting to his new world and defying fate through ancient political intrigue!
