The Jin Dynasty Rises: From Jiangdong to the World

On the day he transmigrates, he is targeted for assassination.

Twelve assassins in black, a bounty of three hundred taels on his head, and the powerful Jiangnan clans watching him like hungry tigers.

Sima Rui, the fifteen-year-old Prince of Langya, faces hell from the start.

Shen Mo, a modern history PhD, wakes up in the body of the puppet emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the very ruler Wang Dao once helped put on the throne.

The million-strong Xiongnu cavalry under Shi Hu looms to the north, while the four great clans of Wu Commandery control the court and wait to see him make a fool of himself. Even Wang Dao, the “loyal minister” by his side, only wants an obedient pawn.

Everyone thinks the young prince who fled from the north won't survive three months.

Then, at a banquet, the aristocrats deliberately refuse him a chair and make him stand for his welcome feast. He simply sits cross-legged on the ground and laughs. “When Emperor Gaozu of Han met Li Yiji, he sat just like this. There's nothing shameful about it.”

Then assassins sneak into the prince's residence again. Using the candlelight and a bronze mirror, he kills three of them single-handedly. Drenched in blood, he declares, “Tell your master that Heaven hasn't claimed my life yet!”

Then Shi Hu's hundred thousand troops march south, and everyone urges him to flee. But he stands at the front of the watchtower, draws his sword, and roars, “If I take one step back, our morale will collapse! Today, either the Jie soldiers die, or I do!”

Nobody knows that inside the body of this young prince dwells a soul from two thousand years in the future.

They call him a warlord of chaos, an emperor for the ages.

Only he knows the truth:

The southward migration of the gentry is not the end. Unifying the realm is what will restore the Jin Dynasty.

It takes him thirty-five years to go from an assassination target and puppet to the Heavenly Khan before whom all nations pay homage.