The Tang Dynasty's Fierce Mentor: Teaching the Crown Prince to Rise

Li Yichen transmigrates into the Tang Dynasty, becoming the companion to Crown Prince Li Chengqian. He thinks he has latched onto the future emperor's coattails—until he discovers in horror that one year from now, the prince will stage a rebellion, and Li Yichen will lose his head. The Li Chengqian before him is rebellious, erratic, and deeply insecure, hurtling down a path of self-destruction while the entire court writes him off as an irredeemable failure. Even his father, the Emperor, looks at him with growing coldness. With only one year left, conventional advice, flattery, or pleas for mercy are useless. Since virtue and obedience offer no hope, Li Yichen decides to teach the prince something far more "subversive." "Your Highness, do you know that His Majesty killed his brothers and imprisoned his father—yet demands filial piety from you? Did he ever practice 'serve your parents in life, serve your sovereign in death'?" "At Xuanwu Gate, he was far more 'rebellious' than you." "He calls you reckless?—Who took his brother's wife as a consort?" "Your Highness, the more perfect you seem, the more uneasy he becomes." In this epic struggle, one man redeems a wayward prince while treading on the emperor's most guarded nerves. In the golden age of Zhenguan, he must forge a worthy heir—and carve out his own survival.