Great Tang: I Courted Death by Rejecting the Marriage, Shocking Li Shimin!

Qin Li, a member of the Duke of Yi’s household, uses the System’s power to win a poetry contest at a pleasure house with a poem for the ages, humiliating the wastrel Chai Lingwu and accidentally getting caught up in a conflict. Though he earns Emperor Taizong’s favor, he is ordered to join the army on the southern frontier. While gathering the System’s admiration points to keep himself alive, he improves farming tools and befriends talented people. Amid Chang’an’s political storms and the duties he owes his country, he sheds his wastrel ways and grows stronger with every step.