[Alternate History] [Political Intrigue] [Scheming] [Smart Protagonist] [Passionate] [Transmigration] [Prince] [Satisfying Read]
Transmigrated as the useless Seventh Prince of Great Zhou
His mother was a disgraced consort confined to the Cold Palace. She died giving birth to him.
He had no family on his mother's side and no backing at court.
At eighteen, he still lived in a dilapidated courtyard beside the Cold Palace. The Imperial Household Department regularly "forgot" to give him his monthly allowance.
The eunuchs mocked him to his face. The Fourth Prince trampled on him at every turn. The court officials acted as if he didn't exist.
On the seventh day after his transmigration, urgent news came from the border: Prince Zhennan was gravely ill, the Northern Liang army of a hundred thousand cavalry had no leader, and the Northern Di had taken three cities in succession.
The Fourth Prince set a trap, and the officials signed a joint petition to send him to Northern Liang as a military supervisor. They called it serving the country, but in truth they were sending him to the front to die.
If he lost, he would be blamed for failing to oversee the battle, giving them a perfect excuse to behead him as a sacrifice to the troops. If he won, the credit would go to the court's strategic planning, with none of it attributed to him.
A trap designed to kill two birds with one stone.
They had planned for everything.
Everything except that this useless man they had trampled on for eighteen years had been the youngest chief operations strategist in the army in his previous life. Give him an army, and he could wipe Northern Di off the map.
At Xuanzheng Hall, the court officials waited to watch him fall to his knees and beg for mercy.
He knelt.
Then he said something that left the entire court in stunned silence:
"Imperial Father, your son is willing to go to Northern Liang, not as a military supervisor."
"Your son is going as commander-in-chief."
From that day on, Great Zhou's court lost a nobody, and the Northern Liang border gained a Lord of Death.
He would claim Northern Liang's cavalry. He would claim Great Zhou's throne, too.
As for the man sitting on the throne: Imperial Father, please die.
