Special forces king Chu Xiao served his country with unwavering loyalty, only to be betrayed by his comrades and take his own life with poison. When he opens his eyes again, he has become the Great Xia dynasty’s most good-for-nothing ninth prince: controlled by the Crown Prince all his life, his mother tragically dead, his uncle framed for treason, and now cast aside and “married off” to a barbarian tribe to secure peace.
The entire court sees him as useless, while the barbarian princess is waiting to humiliate him to death. Yet Chu Xiao smiles in the face of despair.
He uses modern tactics to tame the grasslands and business acumen to control the lifelines of three kingdoms, building an iron-fisted empire in a land of chaos.
Three years later, he fakes his death and escapes, then returns as the “Bright King.”
The Crown Prince is still fighting for the throne, the barbarian princess has become his ally, and the female emperor of Dayuan rules the realm alongside him.
Then one day, he dons the imperial robes and crushes the thrones of the three kingdoms. Facing all his old enemies at court, he says just one thing:
“When you made me crawl through your legs back then, did you ever imagine this day would come?”
