In his previous life, he was the youngest research director at Tianhua Pharmaceuticals, dedicating the best years of his life to the laboratory. Betrayed and drunk, he stumbled into a river. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Qi Yunche, the frail third son of the Duke of Qi's household in the Great Yin Dynasty, bullied by everyone.
His mother died young, his father was away on a military expedition, and the household was ruled by the principal wife. The original owner was weak-willed, shunned by his brothers and looked down on by the servants. Even his monthly allowance was withheld, and the physician declared he wouldn't survive the winter. But when the soul of modern pharmaceutical researcher Qiao Yang moved into this body, everything changed.
Starting with refining table salt, he used his knowledge of chemistry to earn his first fortune. He made ice from saltpeter and grew rich in the summer. Soap and perfume swept the capital. Glass mirrors caused a sensation among the nobility. Cement fortifications astonished the Ministry of Works. An early form of penicillin saved a city from plague. Flintlock guns and cannons defeated the enemy. Drawing on what he had learned in his previous life, he rose from a discarded heir to become a business magnate, a master physician, a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Works, and the God of War of the northern frontier.
At court, as princes vied for the throne and noble clans schemed against one another, he navigated the turmoil with technological neutrality, choosing no side and relying on no one, letting only his achievements speak for him. When war blazed across the northern frontier, he led an artillery battalion into battle, using modern military strategy to crush the Northern Di cavalry, reclaim lost territory, and win renown across the northern deserts. When his achievements threatened to overshadow the emperor, he politely declined a title as a prince of a different surname, asking only to establish an Institute of Practical Sciences and begin a technological revolution in Great Yin.
He did not make this journey alone. Liu Bingying, daughter of Imperial Physician Liu, was a gifted doctor, cool and headstrong. From their initial wariness, to fighting side by side in a plague zone, to pledging themselves to each other amid the flames of war on the northern frontier, she became his staunchest ally and beloved. The emperor
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