The Hostage Becomes Emperor

After transmigrating into the body of a prince, he had barely had time to celebrate before discovering that he was being held hostage in an enemy nation.

Looking at his beautiful new bride from the Duke's household, Situ Xi felt a little dizzy.

Here, the great powers vie for supremacy, and beneath a seemingly peaceful life, undercurrents are already stirring.

He is a hostage, an abandoned son of the Zhao Kingdom, and a pawn, a tool in the eyes of others.

With the world as a chessboard and himself as meat on the chopping block, Situ Xi refuses to let others butcher him at will. Using his intelligence and knowledge, he lays plans for the future, amasses wealth, recruits brilliant advisers, and wins support. When the time and circumstances are right, he will break out of the game.

From then on, the sky will be vast and the seas wide, and the realm will be his to roam. How could the struggle for supremacy be complete without him?

So what if he is a hostage? This time, he will climb to the very top!