Reincarnated as an Imperial Prince

The Embarrassing Past

The veil of the night has darkened the surroundings of the Winter Palace. The golden hue of electric lights that lined the exterior walls of the extravagant estate glowed under the gloomy evening, radiating magnificence.

In one of the rooms of the Winter Palace was a brightly lit office where Alexander was currently working.

Busy as usual, Alexander scribbled on his papers, trying to complete his daily task.

Being an Imperial Prince plus the future emperor is a very taxing job. More taxing than he was once when he was a CEO in his past life.

Normally, he would relegate this task to his trustworthy and capable personnel while he just enjoys his life in his penthouse, watching the view of the New York skyline.

But in this world, there were no people that can keep up with his work, especially on his inventions. He's been meeting with countless engineers and architects about his new designs but their reactions were the same, awed, speechless, and astounded.

They still need guidance but some of them are picking up what he was trying to point out. Still, they are not cut off from the job. He can't blame them as they have different expertise and the thing he's planning on introducing to this world hasn't realized its greatness.

A technology that will transform how information is transmitted and make the world even more connected with one another.

Television.

Most people in this era haven't heard of the word television. The way information was disseminated was through newspapers and radios.

In this world, radios are the dominating technology in a media empire. It was a lucrative business that made some pioneers in the radio industry garner a huge amount of money. How? Well, people from every household who'd like to get the latest update on big events, congregate around the radio. It was also a form of entertainment.

So imagine how would the people react when they can not only hear the words coming out from the speaker but see the images that go along with the signal in real-time?

That's where the television came in. An invention that could make the radio obsolete.

Now, he had consulted this idea with some of the engineers in the Ruthenia Empire, but none of them catches his interest, a gut feeling that they aren't the right person for the job.

One of the engineers he met told him that there was a boy from the United States who pitched the very same idea as his. Obviously, it piqued his interest. So he had arranged a meeting with him two weeks ago. He'll arrive today.

Of course, he can create the television by himself, he even created one when he was in high school for his science project and has the materials to build it in the palace. But as the head of state, Alexander couldn't just neglect his royal duties for the industries he was planning on creating. He has to find a people that could handle the business for him to lessen the load. Someone who is not only capable but also understands what they are working with. And last but not least, trustworthy.

While he was scribbling on the paper, a knock on the door caused his attention to shift away from the papers. He called out "Come in!"

The door creaked as the door opened. Alexander looked up from his desk at the man entering his office. It was Rolan. So he just got back from the police station.

Rolan walked over to Alexander's desk, carrying a brown envelope.

"The thugs that harassed the woman earlier have been detained, sir," Rolan reported and handed the envelope to him politely. "This is all the documents I can find about the woman you asked me to check."