Transmigrating into an Ancient Power Struggle: From the Start, I Rescue a Girl from the Entertainment Quarter

In the third year of Qingyuan, heavy snow blankets the capital.

Shen Yan, a modern civil servant in the poverty alleviation office, transmigrates overnight into the body of a seventh-rank official in the Ministry of Revenue of the Great Yong Dynasty. He sees through this chaotic age of imperial supremacy, aristocratic monopolies, and honest officials who can barely survive.

After his lofty ambitions are repeatedly thwarted, he finally wakes up to the truth: to do good, he must first seize power.

He abandons his good name and his rigid principles, choosing instead a path that will shock the world: following He Shen's example, he enters the officialdom through corruption, uses his power for personal gain, and rises to the top with an iron fist.

On a snowy night at the Jiaofang Bureau, he saves Lu Minglan, the daughter of a disgraced minister who would rather die than yield. He recognizes her strength of character at a glance and takes her as a trusted ally.

From then on, the seventh-rank official enters the murky currents of the bureaucracy. Outwardly, he curries favor, schemes, amasses wealth, and builds a faction, becoming a corrupt, treacherous official in the eyes of the world. In secret, he stays true to his principles, follows the righteous path, protects the weak, and purges the parasites, carefully maneuvering to roil the court.

He navigates the whirlpool of political intrigue and contends with the great clans and imperial power, bearing the infamy of generations and wielding immense authority, all to rewrite the injustice of this chaotic age with his own hands and secure peace and happiness for the people in his heart.

He seeks power over all under heaven not for glory, but to walk a righteous path in a corrupt body.

This novel and its characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.