The Qing Crown Prince and His Imperial Mother Join Hands to Transform the Qing Dynasty

The fourteenth year of the Kangxi reign, the Forbidden City.

Yinreng opened his eyes and found himself back on the night before he was appointed crown prince.

The political scheming, house arrest, and despair of his previous life had yet to happen.

But he soon sensed something was amiss: in the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility, the soul lamp belonging to Empress Heseri was burning strangely bright.

The woman who should have died of a postpartum hemorrhage in the birthing chamber was “alive” in another form.

She was cultivating immortality.

Yinreng had prepared an entire strategy for the succession struggle, but Empress Heseri sent him just one message:

“Go ahead and do as you please, my son. I’ll take care of everything behind you.”

And so the Great Qing took a completely different path in this life.

When the ministers were astonished by the crown prince’s sudden, cheat-like skill at governing,

no one knew that a mighty cultivator at the Ascension Realm was silently protecting the empire from deep within the palace.

Many years later, Kangxi gazed at the Great Qing’s railway network and Department of Organization, deep in thought.

“Did my son and empress get handed some strange script?”