Master of Both Letters and Arms: Seizing the Throne with a Bowl of Poison

The Fourteenth Prince of Great Qin is a classic transmigration power fantasy. It tells the story of Qin Lang, a top secret agent who unexpectedly transmigrates while carrying out a highly classified mission, taking over the body of the Fourteenth Prince, a laughingstock in Great Qin known as a useless drunk and glutton.

The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself facing the Empress's deadly honey trap: the flirtatious Song Mumu uses her body to tempt him into drinking slow-acting poison every day, all to clear the way for the Eighth Prince to claim the throne. But Qin Lang awakens in time and turns the tables, tearing away the facade of the honey trap. He overturns the medicine bowl in front of everyone and, amid the Empress's thunderous fury, recites the astonishing verse, "The whole city is clad in golden armor." In a single night, the capital's fortunes are turned upside down.

After the Empress sentences him to study at the Imperial College, the court officials and royal offspring all regard him as a fool and a laughingstock. Yet this "good-for-nothing" crushes the scholars with his astounding talent: three couplets leave Master Li spitting blood, the line "In the painting, the dragon neither sings nor the tiger roars" sweeps away the college's most famous couplet, and he challenges the entire Imperial College to a flying flower poetry contest. Even Zhao Zhiya, Great Qin's foremost talented woman, goes from looking down on him to regarding him with new interest. Zhao Ji'er, the Third Princess of Zhao, traveling with a foreign delegation, also considers him a grave threat and secretly investigates him.

From a pawn at the mercy of others to a player who stirs the currents of power, Qin Lang advances cautiously through the treacherous imperial palace. His goal is not merely to survive, but to seize the pieces and become emperor on the board of Great Zhou, turning the tides of power at will.