# Ming Dynasty #Historical Power Fantasy #Political Intrigue #Jiajing #Celestial Official
In the sixteenth year of Zhengde's reign, the Zhengde Emperor dies in the Leopard House. The throne is vacant, and undercurrents churn through the court.
Shen Yuan transmigrates into the son of a wrongfully executed Imperial Observatory scholar. From the start, he makes a deadly wager with the Observatory's powerful director: a total solar eclipse will occur in three days, and if his prediction is wrong, he'll be executed by slicing.
The entire court mocks him for his youthful arrogance, unaware that he can calculate the movements of the sun, moon, and stars with perfect precision, and even knows the fate of the Ming Dynasty for the next hundred years.
The eclipse occurs exactly as predicted. He makes a name for himself in a single stroke, rising from obscurity to take charge of the Imperial Observatory.
Yang Tinghe leads the officials in forcing their way into the palace? Shen Yuan uses celestial signs to establish the rites, debates the scholars, and legitimizes the Jiajing Emperor, becoming the new ruler's most trusted blade.
Locust plagues, floods, earthquakes, and cold snaps: he predicts them all with pinpoint accuracy six months in advance, saving a million people through his efforts alone. The people across the land honor him as a "Living Celestial Official."
He revises the calendar, reforms farming methods, manages floods and disaster relief, and takes on the scholar-official faction, roiling the Jiajing court.
From an impoverished nobody to a first-rank official who holds power over the court, Shen Yuan wields an astrolabe to uphold the legitimacy of imperial rule above and protect the common people below, rewriting five hundred years of the Ming Dynasty's fortunes through his efforts alone!
