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Shen Mingyuan is the Heavenly Dao of his own world, a cosmic entity who finds himself responsible for a collection of displaced souls from other stories. Among these are Yun Shen, a sixteen-year-old prince who transmigrated from a modern society where he experienced equality and peace, and Prince Qi, a favored royal destined for power. The story opens during a severe drought and famine in the Yin Dynasty. Shen Mingyuan awakens in the body of a starving man named Shen Mingyuan, collapsing by the roadside outside Luming County. He is discovered by Prince Qi and his younger brother, the Sixth Prince Yun Shen. While Yun Shen coldly orders his servant to toss food to the dying man and rides on, Prince Qi stops to offer aid and recruitment. Shen Mingyuan, recognizing Yun Qi as a Child of Destiny, refuses the immediate offer, claiming greater ambitions and intriguing the prince with his boldness and composure.

After the princes depart, Shen Mingyuan reflects on his role. He views the transmigrators not as threats but as children who need guidance and protection from the absurdities of their new worlds. He decides to use his position to help Yun Shen, who suffers from depression and a deep longing for his original home. Shen Mingyuan travels to Luming County, where he meets Magistrate Lu Shaozhi, a talented but weary official who sees the signs of the dynasty’s impending collapse. Shen Mingyuan offers to serve as an advisor, proposing a strategy to convert drought-stricken farmland into medicinal herb fields and establishing a merchant guild named Yan Gui. The name is a deliberate gift to Yun Shen, referencing a poem about wild geese returning home, symbolizing his support for the prince’s desire to escape his current fate.

Shen Mingyuan then moves to Yuzhou City, where Prince Qi is managing disaster relief. He reveals that the Yan Gui guild has been artificially inflating grain prices to attract merchants from across the empire. Once the grain supply is monopolized, he crashes the market by selling at a fraction of the cost, forcing other merchants to sell their stock to Prince Qi’s disaster relief funds. This economic maneuver successfully stabilizes the region and earns Prince Qi immense praise and political capital. Shen Mingyuan declines Prince Qi’s offer to stay in the capital, choosing instead to return to Luming to continue his work with Lu Shaozhi and prepare for future moves.

Meanwhile, Yun Shen is dispatched to the northern border to suppress Wuhuan rebels, a mission he accepts with resignation, feeling invisible compared to his brother’s glory. He learns of the Yan Gui guild’s activities and is outraged by the price gouging, detouring to Luming to intervene. However, the truth of Shen Mingyuan’s strategy is revealed to the public, and the scholars who had accused the guild of cruelty are forced to apologize. Shen Mingyuan recruits these scholars, Zheng Honglin and You Zhonglun, to assist Lu Shaozhi, further consolidating his influence in the region. The narrative establishes a complex web of political maneuvering, economic strategy, and personal loyalty, with Shen Mingyuan acting as the unseen hand guiding events to protect his charges while navigating the treacherous court politics of the Yin Dynasty.

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