Great Tang: You’re All Forcing Me to Become Emperor!

My suggestion is to revise the first few chapters and remove the word "spiritual vision" from the text. Even changing it to "system" or "panel" would be better than "spiritual vision". I forced myself to keep reading despite feeling nauseous, and found it to be well-written and quite interesting.

I don't believe the protagonist can defeat the nearly fully-fledged Empress Wu. Fighting her on the chessboard would be certain death. The protagonist's entry point to the throne is good, but his most fatal weakness is his lack of military power. Unless he has some kind of cheat code, I don't know how he can truly rule.

I was planning to read it, but the first chapter was discouraging. There's no need to force myself to stick with A-list content just for the sake of views.

The struggle for power based on ritual and law is a rather novel angle, but if it continues for too long, it can easily give the impression of being seemingly impressive but ultimately vague and ambiguous. Especially with nearly 200,000 words already, could the pacing be slightly faster?

It's written in a very mysterious way, but it's all bullshit. To put it bluntly, without troops, you're nothing; what good are any coups or power plays? The only way for the Li Tang dynasty to regain power was for Li Longji to directly lead an army in a coup; otherwise, would Wu Zetian have so easily handed over power? It's all about destiny. Destiny only exists if someone acknowledges it; without someone to carry it out, what kind of destiny is it?

You say the Han Dynasty's promotion of the emperor's divinity is somewhat plausible, but the Tang Dynasty? The Tang Dynasty, which just ended the chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties? The Tang Dynasty, which experienced the three punches to the emperor, the honey water incident, the fratricide, the imprisonment of the father? Isn't that pure nonsense?

The most ingenious political maneuvering in the Tang Dynasty was the Xuanwu Gate Incident. The whole "returning the emperor's name" thing is dragging on and on. The only reason Wu Zetian abdicated in her later years was because she was forced to do so. I feel like all this could be explained in 10 chapters.

I read it all in one go, and here are my thoughts: if you can't beat Wu in a hundred chapters, that's basically it. Readers are all viewing the whole situation from God's perspective. Throughout the story, the author repeatedly describes Wu Yao's actions before returning to Chang'an, and describes the protagonist's countermeasures.

Um, I don't know much about politics, so I'm just asking: if one day the protagonist greets Empress Wu and then kills her, what would be the consequences? Would he be able to remain emperor?

The author is politically naive and writes in a very simplistic way. It's utterly pointless. What's with all this talk about divinity? Dude, it's about legitimacy, or what you might call orthodoxy. If you're orthodox, the powerful clans will naturally protect you. Protecting you is protecting them, protecting the rules.