The Great Zhou Dynasty, during the Tianqi era.
The seventeenth prince, Xiao Jingyan, is attacked during an autumn hunt and falls off a cliff, on the brink of death. His soul unexpectedly transmigrates to the modern world, where he lives for three years as a university history student. Through his studies, he gradually realizes that something is wrong with the Great Zhou Dynasty: its frequent wars, officials dying for no apparent reason, and powerful ministers swept up in “love” are all deeply unnatural.
When he returns to the Great Zhou with his modern memories and sees the world from a fresh perspective, he finally discovers the truth: countless transmigrators carrying Systems are wreaking havoc across the land. For the sake of their missions and so-called “love,” they toy with the powerful at will, leaving devastation in their wake.
A general opens the city gates for a brothel girl, and a hundred thousand people die. The Minister of Revenue diverts disaster relief funds to marry his “true love,” leaving the Jiangnan region strewn with starving corpses. The prime minister’s son poisons his wife for the sake of “eternal devotion,” and two great clans wage war against each other.
A System is behind all of it.
Xiao Jingyan clenches his fists. “If you treat this world like a game, then I’ll show you what true imperial statecraft looks like!”
From a remote border town to the Golden Throne Hall, from standing alone to winning the support of the people. He uses the decisive ruthlessness of a male-oriented story to break through the tender romance of a female-oriented one; he uses modern principles of governance to crush the Systems’ crooked schemes; and with the true art of an emperor, he turns every transmigrator into his pawn!
When the women carrying romance-guide Systems realize that this emperor doesn’t fall for “true love,” it’s already too late
Because Xiao Jingyan never wanted romance.
He wants the realm, the seas...
