Shen Xing, a modern makeover blogger with a sharp tongue and ruthless hands, specializes in dealing with anyone who refuses to fall in line. He wakes up in the body of the most useless Ninth Prince of the Tiansheng Dynasty, and from the start, his fiancée breaks off their engagement. In front of everyone, the capital’s foremost beauty and literary talent humiliates him: “A useless man isn’t good enough for me. I’m marrying your Seventh Brother, Tiansheng’s God of War!”
Faced with mockery from the court and hostility from his brothers, Shen Xing doesn’t panic. He’s delighted. Breaking off the engagement? Just what he wanted! He whips out his phone. There’s no signal, but his local photo album has over a hundred episodes’ worth of makeover material!
While everyone else is still fighting with cold weapons, he assembles a team of infrastructure maniacs. Cement kilns, perfume, glass: a business empire appears out of nowhere. When enemy troops invade, he sets up a trebuchet. What it hurls isn’t rocks, but bombs and loudspeakers blasting a maddening viral tune on repeat.
His rival, the Seventh Prince Shen Yu, is Tiansheng’s God of War, and the current partner of Shen Xing’s ex. After Shen Xing repeatedly crushes him with tactics from another dimension, Shen Yu goes from dismissive to shocked, from furious to questioning his entire life. He realizes that the military achievements and political schemes he’s so proud of seem like a joke next to his younger brother, the so-called useless man who never stops talking nonsense.
Meanwhile, the ex who broke off the engagement watches Shen Xing climb to the pinnacle of power, revered by the people, and regrets it so deeply she could kick herself. Shen Xing just picks at his ear and says to the camera (or the air), “Hey, folks, how many points would you give this makeover?”
