I wake up as Li Chengqian, Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, but in his toddler form, complete with a leg that's about to go lame and a "standard ending" script involving deposition, death, and the destruction of my family.
Who could put up with a hellish start like this? The Defy-Fate System, activate! Armed with modern medical knowledge, I make sure there'll be no such thing as a lame crown prince! I want "Heaven's Mandate Is Mine" to become my signature look!
At court, I'm my father Li Shimin's number-one fanboy. I use management and psychology to offer spot-on advice and steadily win his favor. Against my ambitious younger brother, I use virtue and learning to crush him with an overwhelming advantage, while casually steering the future Emperor Gaozong toward a life as an idle prince. The aristocratic clans monopolize knowledge? I'll strike at the root with movable-type printing and reforms to the civil service exams!
Just when everyone thinks I'll work myself to death in the endless grind of court politics, I turn around and take up "targeted poverty alleviation"! I make sugar, open mines, and build a commercial empire, quietly "binding" the whole Tang Dynasty to me through its economic lifelines. Father, the lifeblood of this empire is now in your son's hands to protect!
It's just that the crown princess my father and mother insist on foisting on me goes from someone I resist to someone I truly understand, and she becomes the only warmth I have in this unfamiliar era... As my modern soul and identity as the Tang Crown Prince fully merge, who am I, really?
I am Li Chengqian. This time, the Tang Dynasty will follow my commands and walk the path I choose!
