Tang Dynasty: Reincarnating as Li Chengqian to Turn Everything Upside Down

Transmigrated to the sixteenth year of the Zhenguan era, Li Chengqian only has one thing to say: if he is going to die, then he will stir things up until the heavens and earth turn upside down!

When he wakes up, a modern soul has become Tang dynasty Crown Prince Li Chengqian—a lame, disgraced heir apparent, on the verge of being deposed, and recorded in history as soon to be ruined by “rebellion”!

Before him lies the splendor of the Zhenguan era, but beneath his feet is a bottomless abyss.

His father, Emperor Li Shimin, grows increasingly disgusted with him, his younger brother King Li Tai watches him covetously, and the civil and military officials of the court regard him as rotten wood.

The transmigrator knows the ending: rebellion, deposition, and lonely death!

Faced with this desperate situation, he will use his opponent’s spear to break his opponent’s shield in the imperial court:

When Zhang Xuansu uses the moral authority of the Spring and Autumn Annals to harshly criticize him, he asks, “How should the bloodshed at Xuanwu Gate, where a minister killed the crown prince and usurped the throne, be explained by the Spring and Autumn Annals?”

When Kong Yingda takes the Classic of Filial Piety as the basis for instruction, he asks, “Forcing one’s father to abdicate and living secluded in the deep palace—does this count as the ‘foundation of virtue’?”

When Yu Zhining counsels him with the way of benevolence and righteousness, he asks, “Slaughtering one’s young nephews—what crime did the children have? Is this what ‘the benevolent love others’ means?”

Every sentence cites the classics, every word points straight at Xuanwu Gate! He tears open the brocade robes of the prosperous age to reveal old wounds stained with blood; he challenges imperial authority and questions the very foundation of morality.

This is not rebellion, it is a last desperate gamble at the end of the road!

Li Shimin is furious, the edict of deposition hangs over his head, and the Eastern Palace trembles! Can a cannon-fodder crown prince who knows history’s ending use his tongue as a sword and people’s hearts as a shield to carve out a sliver of survival amid the storms of Zhenguan year sixteen?

This is a life-and-death contest between a transmigrator and a great emperor of the ages.

Can he steady the collapsing Eastern Palace, or will he ultimately become yet another nameless sacrifice beneath the splendor of the age?