Playing the Emperor? I’m Just Being Myself

[Two-way travel] + [Tang dynasty infrastructure building] + [a dimension-shattering entertainment-industry crossover]

In the early years of the Zhenguan era, a severe drought grips Guanzhong, locusts blot out the sky, and the great clans of Guanlong pressure Li Shimin to issue an imperial edict admitting his guilt.

With the treasury empty and the people driven to eat their own children, Li Shimin unexpectedly opens a two-way passage to the modern world.

To gather food for the people of the Tang dynasty, the emperor himself ends up working as an extra on a modern film set through a twist of fate.

“Hey, you! An emperor should have a commanding presence without getting angry. Do you understand?”

At the director’s roar, Li Shimin slowly raises his eyes. The murderous aura of an emperor who has weathered rivers of blood sweeps across the set.

One glance is all it takes for the arrogant young heartthrob to drop to his knees and burst into tears.

He writes in flying-white calligraphy with one fluid stroke and shoots a bow with enough precision to pierce a target from a hundred paces. Li Shimin goes viral across the modern internet and rakes in acting fees.

Then he turns around and uses millions in pay to buy tens of thousands of tons of potatoes and pesticide, sending them back to the Tang dynasty.

At court, modern pesticide descends like divine water, wiping out the locusts in an instant.

Mountains of steaming potatoes pile up, and the great clans’ plot to force the emperor from the throne becomes a colossal joke.

When 200,000 Turkic cavalry surround the Wei River and continue their taunts,

Li Shimin silently pulls out a walkie-talkie and personally sets up a modern “morality-free cannon” made from steel pipes.

“Fire! Let these barbarians see what the true power of the Tang dynasty looks like!”