From the Start, I Save the Crown Prince and Build a Republic

As the realm fell to pieces, a scholar saved someone he should never have saved, setting out on a road with no turning back. Lu Mingyuan, a Hanlin Academician on mourning leave who devoted himself to practical learning and had no interest in fame or office, saved the fugitive, deposed Crown Prince Zhao Yuan on a rainy night in Xuzhou, as if possessed by some strange force. That one act pulled him away from the peace of his study and dragged him into the most perilous game in the realm.