With seventeen years left in the Tang dynasty, Chen Mu, a PhD in history, opens his eyes and finds himself in the body of Tang Zhaozong, the last emperor, destined to be strangled and thrown into Nine-Bend Pool.
Worse still, the original owner's soul is asleep inside this body. Two souls share one body, and neither can devour the other.
Fortunately, a modern soul who knows every rebellion of the late Tang and the death date of every warlord, paired with a fallen emperor who understands the art of imperial rule and carries the blood of the Li Tang dynasty, makes the most terrifying combination in this chaotic age.
He plays the pig to eat the tiger, choking the treacherous eunuch Yang Fugong to death in court. With a single sentence, he overturns the doomed campaign against Hedong and turns Li Keyong from sworn enemy into a shield. Thunderous gunpowder blasts at Jin Suo Pass send the Bian army fleeing in terror.
When Daoist arts separate the two souls, one remains in Chang'an, directing affairs and calculating people's motives, while the other assumes the name Li Yao, bestrides the land, and personally braves a hail of arrows and stones. Modern technologies, including crucible steel, gunpowder, water-powered spinning wheels, and Western Regions telescopes, are developed one after another.
Zhu Wen wants to usurp the Tang? Jing Xiang wants to set a trap? Cui Yin wants to invite a wolf into the house?
This time, history will go according to my script.
I will not only keep the Tang dynasty alive, but also lead it beyond its borders, to places history has never recorded.
History, reborn, transmigrate, power struggle, schemes and intrigue, comeback, late Tang, emperor, two male leads, golden finger, industrial development, technological nation-building
