Gu Chengyuan transmigrated and became the sickly, spoiled young master everyone despised in the Duke of Great Xia’s household.
He thought he would spend the rest of his life doing nothing but eating and waiting to die. Instead, he had not only brought knowledge from his previous life, but also gained a Life-for-Power System.
From street food to restaurants and merchant guilds, from bookkeeping and business management to science and teaching.
Step by step, he turned his ventures into the most profitable businesses in Great Xia and gave the Five Surnames and Seven Clans a thorough public drubbing.
Zhao Mingzhao, the emperor’s most beloved eldest legitimate daughter, initially wanted to use a political marriage to make him back down.
She never expected him to see through her every move in advance, only to trap herself instead.
At the Imperial College, his poetry and couplets amazed the gathered talents, while his lessons in pinyin, multiplication tables, and science stunned the princes and princesses.
At court, he cleared the Duke’s household of false charges, battled the Five Surnames and Seven Clans, crushed the Crown Prince’s faction and the Shu Prince’s faction, and ultimately faced Prince Jing, who intended to seize the throne.
One wanted to build his fortune quietly, while the other wanted to escape an arranged marriage. From testing one another to plotting side by side, they carved out a new path through a Great Xia roiled by storm and turmoil.