The Disgraced Prince Drops the Act: I’ll Claim the Throne Through Political Intrigue

A modern history and engineering prodigy transmigrates into the Great Yong dynasty, becoming Xiao Chen, the good-for-nothing Sixth Prince whom everyone despises.

His mother, the daughter of a disgraced minister, died young, leaving him without support. He lives in an abandoned palace in the countryside, with neither power nor influence.

Five elder princes watch him like hawks. The Crown Prince is overbearing, the Third Prince is sly, and the princes fight among themselves. Powerful clans monopolize the court, and beneath the facade of a golden age, danger lurks everywhere.

Just after he turns eighteen, an imperial decree arrives from the heavens.

The emperor issues a marriage decree, betrothing him to Luo Qingyi, the famed granddaughter of the Grand Tutor, celebrated throughout the realm and revered by the literary world.

Luo Qingyi is peerlessly beautiful and the most talented woman in the capital. She commands the esteem of scholars across the land and is renowned throughout the court, yet has not a shred of real power.

This marriage is a calculation in the emperor's game of balance, a pawn in the court's power struggles, and a joke that the whole capital sneers at.

Everyone laments that a peerless beauty has married a useless prince, and waits for him to bring about his own ruin.

In public, Xiao Chen conceals his talents, acting timid and dull, content to be a discarded pawn for others to trample. He fools the throne, deceives the princes, and lulls every enemy at court into complacency.

In private, he holds countless strategies in his mind and sees through the ways of the world and the human heart. With foresight, he breaks deadlocks; with careful calculation, he shapes the fate of the realm.

No System to give him an unfair advantage, no golden finger granted from the heavens.

He relies instead on his modern knowledge, the scholarly prestige of the Grand Tutor's household, and his own efforts to recruit advisors, gather fierce generals, build an intelligence network, and accumulate strength.

Set the princes against one another, take on the powerful clans head-on, settle accounts with treacherous officials,