Great Tang: I Lay Low to Become the Shadow King, and the Officials Beg Me to Take the Throne

After transmigrating to the Wu Zhou era, Li Yuanting becomes the least favored and most good-for-nothing imperial grandson.

Corrupt officials run rampant at court, and Wu Zetian slaughters members of the Li imperial clan.

To stay alive, Li Yuanting acts by day like a playboy obsessed with bizarre inventions, while secretly building the world's foremost intelligence and assassination network, “Heaven's Retribution.” In the shadows, he becomes Yuan Zun, the Night Emperor feared by every official!

In public, he invents firearms and revives the economy, becoming the only hope of the old Tang officials who seek to restore the Li dynasty.

In secret, Wu Zetian regards him as her sharpest blade and sends him to wipe out every rebel faction.

And so the Tang dynasty witnesses the most absurd spectacle of all.

The old Tang officials cry out in fervor: “Your Highness, lead the rebellion! We support you in overthrowing Wu Zhou!”

Wu Zetian issues one secret decree after another: “Yuan Zun, I command you to move out at once and execute the good-for-nothing imperial grandson, Li Yuanting!”

Then, on the day of the Shenlong coup, all the officials kneel as the imperial robes are placed upon him.

Wu Zetian stares at Li Yuanting, seated high on the dragon throne with the imperial seal in one hand and a night mask in the other, completely dumbfounded.

“How could my greatest trump card be the very grandson I wanted to kill?!”