The script of Hongguo's popular short drama "Substitute Emperor" is adapted from the novel.
Li Ren, a modern office worker, traveled through time and became the stand-in for Emperor Daqian. At the beginning, he was caught in a power struggle between the Queen Mother and the Grand Master, and was also facing the crisis of being silenced by the real Emperor. In order to protect himself, he relied on modern wisdom and decisive methods to conquer the Queen Mother, win the Queen's heart, eliminate the hidden dangers of knowing her identity, and dismantle the Grand Master's gang members. Facing the pressure from northern Xinjiang, he fought back forcefully, built red barbarian cannons, formed a Shenji battalion, provided relief to the victims, and opened schools to recruit scholars to stabilize internal affairs. In the end, the imperial commander went on a personal expedition, defeated the Northern Xinjiang coalition forces, unified the grasslands, and brought Daqian, which was suffering from internal and external troubles, to ZTE, and turned from a substitute counterattack into the true master of the world.
