The Crown Prince Returns to Court

This book is also known as The Master of Traps Returns to Ancient Times. It’s all about setting traps and turning the tables:

Wang Ye was tricked into traveling back to ancient times by his master, where he ran into Chai Zongrang, a fugitive prince of Later Zhou.

Chai set a trap for him, hoping to use Wang Ye as a scapegoat: trading one person for another.

Wang Ye turned the tables, killed the man, and took over his identity: usurping the nest.

While he was gloating, the armies of Song came sweeping in.

Captured and taken to Bianliang, Wang Ye found Zhao Guangyi laying traps at every turn, trying to get him killed.

Wang Ye kept filling in the traps and springing countertraps, helping Zhao Dezhao rise to the position of crown prince.

Just as defeat seemed inevitable, Zhao Guangyi made one last desperate move and laid a huge trap: the Candlelight and Axe Sounds.

The two were so busy laying traps for each other that they never expected the long-dead Zhao Kuangyin to have already set an enormous trap that ensnared them all.