Great Tang: From the Start, I Turn Li Shimin into a Puppet

The fourth day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Wude, just before dawn.

With two hours left on the countdown to the Xuanwu Gate Incident, I, a trusted aide to Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, had just been forced to drink a cup of poison that would eat through my guts.

Outside the gate, Li Shimin's death squad had already arrived. Inside, the Crown Prince's faction was ready to use me as a sacrificial pawn.

Was I doomed either way?

Amid the thunder of my racing heartbeat, I awakened the "Ear of Di Ting." Whenever someone's emotions crumbled, I could hear the deadliest secret buried deep in their heart!

"Commander who led the poisoning, the letters proving you colluded with the Turks are hidden under your bed, aren't they?"

"General Yuchi, are you still too afraid to face the guilt of killing innocents and claiming credit for their deaths?"

When dawn broke, Xuanwu Gate ran red with blood.

Stepping over mountains of corpses and seas of blood, I walked up to the trembling emperor who would be remembered through the ages and whispered in his ear:

"Your Highness, Prince of Qin, you wouldn't want the whole world to learn the secret of how you murdered your brother and forced your father to yield the throne, would you?"

In this life, I won't be a sacrificial pawn. I will turn every official in the Tang court into a puppet on my strings!