Greetings to my readers.

First of all, I would like to thank all that had been supporting my very first relatively serious novel.

I had written this primarily out of frustration.

Why did the isekai hero not kill the monarch, is he not a man from modern society, should he not at least improve the living standards of those within the world.

Instead, the typically isekai hero would be someone just satisfied that he, and the few selected members in his harem, would become the de facto ruler of the world, possessing enough power to overthrow god in many cases.

So I wrote a novel about a man that had fought for the right and independence of a nation, and how such a man would react upon transferring to a pre-modern society,

Originally, I wanted it to be feudalistic, yet found that it would be rather difficult to express in an Eastern setting.

As for why I made it gender bender?

I originally just felt like it but realised that it would be excellent to create contrast between Empress Wunan and the main lead.

Regardless, as I wrote, I realised that I made the main character, Li Ming, far too omnipotent, and decided to kill him mid-way so that the plot would be more interesting.

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Spoilers for future plot

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I plan to bring Li Ming back after Empress Wunan is defeated, so that he may help Xu Xiaomeng impliment new policies.

Regardless, it appeared to have made quite a number of views to drop, but I reminded myself that I am writing this novel because of my own desire, and not to become popular.

The history of the Victorian era is a horrific one, genocides, forced famines, concentration camps, imperialism, colonialism, warfare, etc, are all things a human should never experience, and I, as someone who lives a relatively privileged life, don't want to represent.

Anyway, the majority of the chapter takes at least 3 hours to write (including breaks), primarily because I spend way too long making sure that it was historically accurate.

Typically, as I write, I would find it difficult to continue on the topic and have to fill the rest of the chapter with character interactions, instead of solely theory.

When I had originally started writing this book, I gave Li Ming immortality, half due to the irony of Chinese emperors dying in their pursuit of that, and a half because the undying and wise ruler would be really great.

Image if Augustus remained ruling Rome to today, it would probably never fell under the Great Migration.

Also, I realised, with an immortal ruler, the cabinet surrounding them would inevitably die.

So I had planned for all these characters to die at different moments, most evident through the Liu Brothers.

Also, I had many plans when I was writing this novel, I wished to go from overthrowing the Sui/Yao Dynasty, to overcoming foreign intervention fighting the Xu family, to fighting basically ww1.

Now, I think I'm satisfied with ending the novel with the union of all the former Sui Dynasty.

Thanks for reading such a long update, most of it is filler (to reach the 500-word limit), though it does contain a great deal of my personal thought.