My Lord, the Young Master's Schemes Are Seriously Next-Level

[Court Intrigue] [Male Lead's Growth] [Building a Strong Nation]

In the thirty-seventh year of the Qianyuan era of the Great Qian dynasty,

that night, Shen Yan, the foolish illegitimate son of the Duke of Yong'an's household, awakens in a woodshed. He has not possessed someone else's body after transmigrating. Rather, when two rifts in time and space briefly converged, an invisible force “nailed” him to this body. The original owner's memories and Shen Yan's own understanding intertwine, yet none of his sense of self is erased.

Everyone says that the third young master of the Duke of Yong'an's household is foolish and timid. No one knows that his eyes now reflect a vision and a depth of calculation far beyond this era.

In the imperial examinations, an essay on statecraft that incorporates political science from another world shocks the court. When the border is under threat, his design for a repeating crossbow cart strikes fear into the enemy. And when a deadlock in the princes' succession struggle threatens to bring everything to a standstill, one casual remark from him, “The people are water, and the ruler is a boat,” sends every piece on the board in a new direction.

He never goes out of his way to show that he is “invincible,” yet at every crucial moment, he breaks deadlocks and overturns the rules with seemingly ordinary methods. Court officials say he is unfathomable. The princes see him as either a trusted ally or a sworn enemy. Foreign nations call him “Zhuge Liang reborn.” Only Shen Yan knows that he is merely using the “common sense” of another world to forge his own path to greatness through this chaotic age of political intrigue.

And behind the white light that brought him here, there seems to be an even deeper secret. Perhaps this world was always meant to have a place for him.