Before the Hou Jing Rebellion, I Helped a Prince Secure the Realm

In the second year of Putong, under the Great Liang dynasty, only a few years remain before the Hou Jing Rebellion, when Jiangnan will be stained with blood.

The imperial throne is weak, the imperial clan overbearing, the great families deeply entrenched, the regional warlords divided, and refugees are everywhere. Northern cavalry watch the Yangtze hungrily, and the prosperous lands south of the river are about to become a living hell.

Su Heng, a modern history graduate specializing in law and politics, unexpectedly transmigrates into the Southern Liang dynasty as a low-ranking legal clerk in Xunyang County, Jiangzhou, who is about to take the blame for his superior and go to prison.

From the start, he is trapped in a wrongful case, his superior shifts the blame onto him, and the great families frame him. Prison awaits.

He carries legal knowledge and political strategy in his heart, and understands a thousand years of dynastic rise and fall. He investigates wrongful convictions, roots out corruption, cares for refugees, and trains local militias. By chance, he meets the seventh prince, Xiao Jingyu, a man with no power or influence who is constantly suppressed.

The two become each other's right hand, moving forward step by step through the turmoil of a chaotic age.

When the cataclysm arrives as foretold, northern invaders cross the border and the warlords rebel.

Su Heng assists Xiao Jingyu, saving a collapsing dynasty, pacifying the land, and bringing peace to the regions south of the Yangtze.

The young emperor takes his hand and smiles at the assembled court officials. "With Su Heng at my side, I have won half the empire."

Rising from humble beginnings, with no ancestral favor, no powerful patrons, and no army of his own, he ultimately receives a fief and the title of marquis, rises to the highest office, and earns a place in history.