Sky Screen Reveals: The Disgraced Prince Is the Greatest Emperor of All Time

I was just hugging a pillar in court, crying poverty and begging for money, when the sky screen started livestreaming me building cannons?! My name is Chu Yuan, and I’m the most useless of Great Yan’s nine princes. I’d planned to quietly lead an Industrial Revolution in Lingnan, but instead I was forced to come to the capital to curb the power of the feudal lords. At the critical moment, a sky screen spanning countless worlds descended, forcing the whole realm to watch Great Yan’s future live! It even came with a barrage of comments from later generations roasting us, and could accurately reveal our fates! As long as I play the pig to eat the tiger and exploit my edge in information, I can lead the whole court by the nose! The sky screen mercilessly exposed my second brother’s plans for rebellion. Even more shocking, it foretold the arrival of a "mysterious tyrant of the Southern Seas" who would use an ironclad fleet to blast the imperial city to pieces! The entire court was scared out of their wits! My imperial father frantically sent people everywhere to find this world-ending overlord! Little did they know that the tyrant himself was squatting right there in court, stroking the flintlock in his arms and whining, "Father, why hasn’t this month’s poverty relief money been paid to me yet?" Playing the pig to eat the tiger is a blast, and crushing high-martial worlds with a higher dimension is even better! Watch as I use modern industry to flatten the old imperial order! The day the red-coat cannons are aimed at the imperial city, I’ll shed my tattered dragon robe. "I’ll come clean, Father: I’ll take Great Yan for myself!" [Tropes: sky-screen livestream, scheming underdog vying for supremacy, play the pig to eat the tiger, higher-dimensional domination, wild alternate-history premise]