Great Han: I’m Liu Bang’s Eldest Grandson, the Sage Emperor Liu Xiang

[Transmigration to the Han Dynasty + political intrigue + ensemble cast] After transmigrating as Liu Bang’s eldest illegitimate grandson, Liu Xiang thought he’d been handed a life of coasting along and waiting to die. That is, until an old man kicked open the door and traded a golden crown for the bamboo one on his head. From that moment on, history went off the rails. Han Xin did not die at Changle Palace. Peng Yue did not die at the execution ground. The right arm of Modu Chanyu was blown off on the steppe, and Empress Lu’s nephew was blasted to pieces inside a coffin in a mass grave. Liu Bang said, “You have my courage and talent.” Empress Lu saw him as a thorn in her side. The founding officials treated him as a pawn. When merchants hoarded grain, he showed up at their doors with heads in hand to negotiate fair prices. With a guileless guard, a beggar thief, a princess of the former dynasty, and the son of the Marquis of Liu behind him, he navigated the undercurrents of the early Han Dynasty, one careful step at a time. Some wanted him alive. Others wanted him dead. He just wanted to make it back to his fief alive. The game had begun in Chang’an. Who was the player, who was the pawn, and who would flip the board? “Anyone who is not of the Liu clan and claims the title of king shall be attacked by all under Heaven!” He was the one who shouted those words for Liu Bang. Only after he had said them did he understand: the greatest danger had never been the kings of other surnames. It was the fact that everyone thought he was so much like Liu Bang.