After Reincarnating as the Crown Prince's Attendant, I Was Forced to Rewrite the Tang Dynasty

Du He, a history student who was bottom of his class, woke up to find himself in the Tang dynasty, as a secretary with the same name serving Crown Prince Li Chengqian.

He looked at the ominous red annotation in the history books: “Li Chengqian plots a rebellion and is deposed; his accomplice Du He is executed.” He was terrified out of his mind. From the start, this was a hellishly difficult scenario, a script that was bound to cost him his head!

To stay alive, all he wanted was to keep a low profile: speak less, work hard, stay away from the succession struggle, and make a quick getaway when the crown prince fell.

But reality had other ideas:

When Crown Prince Li Chengqian showed him a ledger full of errors and asked why the figures didn't add up, Du He had no choice but to use modern bookkeeping methods to save the day;

When Prince Li Tai set a trap to frame him, Du He was forced to get out of it with a devious ploy involving “wild cats gnawing on fruit”;

When an epidemic broke out in the Eastern Palace and the imperial physicians were helpless, he braved accusations of spreading “heretical nonsense” and saved a host of lives with quarantine and disinfection…

Gradually, Du He, who had only wanted to stay alive, began to realize:

The violent crown prince recorded in the history books was hiding a resilience no one knew about;

The doomed struggle for the throne might actually be rewritten.

When Li Chengqian clapped him on the shoulder and said, “Help me,” Du He looked at the thorny road ahead, then at the path he'd taken, veering farther and farther from his “stay alive” script. He gritted his teeth:

Forget it, I'm done pretending!

How hard could it be to help the crown prince ascend the throne?

At least I'd read the Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance. I'll rewrite the history of the Tang dynasty myself!

From then on, the Eastern Palace had a secretary who always seemed to “know the future”:

Predicting natural disasters and stockpiling grain and supplies;

Splitting up opponents and striking with precision;

Even using his hazy memories to help the crown prince win over a host of future statesmen…