A modern, struggling novelist woke up in another world, inhabiting the body of a freeloader in a prince’s household who shared his name but not his surname. Fight for power? Seize the throne? Get embroiled in palace intrigue? Too exhausting. No, thanks. His only ambition in this life was to cling to his imperial elder brother and live as an unambitious slacker amid the splendor of a peaceful age.
But the creative fire in his bones refused to die. The melodramatic stories he wrote on a whim unexpectedly took the capital by storm, sparking a reading craze. The “stage plays” he casually dreamed up for fun became the latest pastime among nobles and officials. His business spread to foreign lands, his cultural exports made international waves, and somehow, while lounging around, he became a celebrated literary tycoon.
Just as his life of leisurely wealth seemed to be reaching its peak, a chance encounter led him to uncover a deeply buried taboo of the age. Beneath the peaceful, prosperous reign lay a shocking secret that had been erased from history...
