I Replaced the True Emperor from the Start, and Now I'll Take His Realm

A young white-collar worker wakes up in a dynasty he doesn't recognize.

To his surprise, he looks exactly like the young emperor, who has been keeping him in the palace as a body double.

After an unexpected assassination leaves the emperor dead, I get a bright idea and put on his clothes.

I become the emperor and discover that this is a crumbling dynasty, with foreign forces already at the gates.

Since you couldn't handle it, you dead bastard, I'll take over.

Watch me rise to power, crush the barbarians beyond the frontier, sweep away the rebellion in Sichuan, settle the conflict between good and evil in the martial world, destroy Japan with my army, and lead this country to the pinnacle of the world.

A beautiful empress, a fiery princess, a wicked little enchantress, a cool and aloof female strategist, a silly heroine of the martial world, and a top scholar disguised as a man~~~~~ I'll take them all into my fold, one by one.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.