After Cutting Ties, I Crowned Myself Emperor—Now You Come Crawling?

Reborn as the kingdom's most despised bastard prince, Zhao Li claws his way from rags to riches—perfume empires, sugar monopolies, crushing Turkish invasions. His reward? Poison, chains, and moldy bread in a dungeon while the royal family laughs. But when a mysterious jade ring unlocks a shadowy power network, he orchestrates the ultimate revenge. Crown princes tear each other apart for a throne he never wanted, foreign armies tremble at his 80,000 elite soldiers, and enemies who once spat on him now beg at his feet. They dared to touch his woman? Time to show them why crossing an emperor in d…