Zheng Ge: How Did My Old Six Become an Emperor for the Ages?

Zheng Brother: How Did My Family’s Sixth Son Become a Eternal Emperor?

I, Ying Zheng, First Emperor of Qin.

I pacified the six states, made carts use the same axle width, and standardized the written script. I consider my achievements greater than the Three Sovereigns and more virtuous than the Five Emperors.

Until that day, a divine marvel descended from the sky.

On a light screen, a woman from the future who called herself a streamer began ranking a legendary emperor who had achieved greatness across the ages.

[He is the perfect all-rounder. Mounted, he can command the three armies, strike the Xiongnu in the north, and pacify Annan in the south; dismounted, he can soothe the people, lighten taxes, and create the "Zhaowu Reign"!]

[His civil and military accomplishments are unmatched through the ages! He is the true Eternal Emperor!]

[He is the Qin Empire’s restorer, the one who turned the tide—the Third Qin Emperor, Zhaowu the Great, Ying Chen!]

...

I, Ying Zheng, am completely stunned.

Isn't that my sixth son, the one who has no presence at all in the corner, always keeping his head down, the one I have never once properly looked at?

But the light screen’s next words make my heart sink into ice.

[As for this First Emperor, his achievements are certainly beyond question! But if we talk about his eye for raising an heir... tsk tsk, that really wasn’t very good!]

[If not for our Zhaowu the Great suddenly rising to the occasion and turning the tide, this Qin Empire would probably have perished after only two generations!]

The light screen then exposed that dark future: after my death, Zhao Gao and Li Si forged an imperial edict, forced Su to death, supported that rebel son Hu Hai to ascend the throne, pointed at a deer and called it a horse, slaughtered imperial clan members, and ultimately caused the empire to go up in flames and perish in the second generation!

I am completely bewildered.

Could it really be that my vision for choosing an heir, as the First Emperor with grand ambition and strategy, was this poor?

Who can tell me: how did my family’s sixth son become an Eternal Emperor?