I Served as a Hostage for My Brother for Three Years. Now You Want Me to Hand Over My Battle Honors?

[After three years as a hostage, I return with a dark edge, and my family demands I surrender my achievements? I turn around and make my little brother a “billionaire”!] Li Xuan is the disowned son of the Marquis of Huaiqing’s household in the Great Qian dynasty. He went in his younger brother’s place to serve as a hostage in an enemy kingdom for three years, surviving countless brushes with death. On the day he returns, his scummy father and stepmother actually demand that he hand over all his achievements to secure a bright future for his younger brother, Li Xiu! Become a prince consort? Bring glory to the family? Fine. You can claim the credit and marry the princess! Li Xuan laughs coldly, cuts ties with them, and walks away. No one knows that the frail hostage has already built a vast business empire in secret in Great Xia, with the power to turn the world upside down! Since the marquis’s household is so greedy, Li Xuan simply puts Tongyuan Trading Company, a fortune beyond measure with countless hidden connections to corrupt officials, under Li Xiu’s name. “Little brother, I’m giving you both this immense fortune and the deadly mess that comes with it!” Watch as the impostor is smothered with praise, and the marquis’s grand house comes crashing down! A prince consort? How big a funeral urn will you need?