Raised in Poverty for Fifteen Years, I’m Exposed as Li Shimin’s Crown Prince

Li Yi, the second son of Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, suddenly fell gravely ill on the day he was born.

The physiognomist Yuan Tiangang said that a great calamity was written in Li Yi’s fate. To overcome it, he would have to live incognito among the common people and be raised in poverty for fifteen years.

Thus Li Yi was sent out of the palace to grow up poor in Chang’an, living an ordinary life.

Then one day, Li Yi invented all kinds of remarkable things: distilled liquor, white sugar, horseshoes, curved-blade plows, black powder...

From that day on, Li Yi noticed that Uncle Qin, who had looked after him since childhood, had become a braggart who kept saying he would give him an empire.

Even Uncle Qin’s wife bragged that she would find all the unmarried beauties in the Tang Empire and let Li Yi pick his favorite to be his wife.

Facing this ridiculous couple, Li Yi asked, “Since you’re both so good at boasting, can I become emperor?”

Uncle Qin replied calmly, “What’s so hard about that?”