I Transmigrated to the Three Kingdoms: Who Says Adou Can't Make It?

After Li Shimin, the Tang dynasty’s Emperor Taizong, died of illness in the twenty-third year of the Zhenguan era, he transmigrated into the body of Liu Shan, a mere sixteen-year-old in the Three Kingdoms period. Faced with a weak Shu Han, the devoted Zhuge Liang, and warlords like Cao Cao and Sun Quan, this peerless emperor resolved to unite the realm by serving as Chancellor Zhuge Liang’s aide under the name Liu Shan.

He kept an emperor’s wisdom and political skill hidden, deftly maneuvering both inside and outside the court. In public, he was an inept young ruler; in secret, he drove advances in technology, economic reform, and military change. From improving the repeating crossbow and developing an early form of gunpowder to expanding Dujiangyan’s irrigation works and selling Shu brocade as far as the Western Regions, from secretly forming the Black Armored Guard to launching a surprise attack on Jieting... Li Shimin quietly reshaped the balance of the Three Kingdoms.

When Zhuge Liang realized that the young ruler had “suddenly come to his senses,” when Zhao Yun and Jiang Wei sensed the ruler’s hidden imperial cunning, and when Sima Yi detected an unseen hand manipulating the tide behind Shu Han, the fate of the entire Three Kingdoms had already changed.

This is the story of two generations of brilliant strategists working together, of the grandeur of the High Tang colliding with the upheavals of the Three Kingdoms, and of Li Shimin correcting the regrets of his previous life and restoring peace to the realm.