He opened his eyes and found himself in the body of Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of the Western Jin.
He knew exactly what lay ahead: the upheaval of the Yongjia era. Luoyang would fall, the Jin court would collapse, and he himself would become a national laughingstock, captured, humiliated, and poisoned to death.
But this time, he refused to accept his fate.
At court, Sima Yue, Prince of Donghai, held power while the great clans tightened their grip. Inside the palace, the imperial guards had been infiltrated, and his edicts could barely make it beyond the walls. Outside, Liu Yuan pressed south, Shi Le was on the rise, and Guanzhong, Hebei, and Jiangdong were all on the verge of collapse.
In the name of the Son of Heaven, he had to seize back control of the court, reform the imperial guards, secure the grain routes, appoint generals to defend the borders, hold back the nomadic cavalry, stabilize Guanzhong, and take control of Jiangdong. He had to rewrite the Western Jin’s doomed fate on the very eve of its fall.
In this life, I will not be an emperor who loses his country.
I will turn the Yongjia upheaval into the starting point of China’s revival.
