Building the Great Tang

An architecture major unexpectedly travels to the late reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang and becomes Li Yuanwai, Li Shimin’s sixteenth younger brother.

Faced with an era whose grand vision has already begun, Li Yuanwai fails to catch the most glorious wave. Taking a go-with-the-flow attitude, he sets himself a small goal: use his own strengths to build a palace unprecedented in history, and design a city that can stand alongside Tang Chang’an.

But things do not go as planned.

Emperor Taizong’s glorious era passes quickly, and the chapter of the Great Tang instead arrives.

Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, and the first female emperor Wu Zetian, gradually step onto the stage of history.

Is Li Zhi incompetent? Is Wu Zetian heroic and formidable?

Amid the stormy struggle for power and the step-by-step reform to curb powerful clans, a person who should not have appeared in history faces the torrent of history and turns the tide.