Eternal Emperor, Beginning with a Court Full of Traitors

[Transmigration + comedy + conquest + fantasy] The male protagonist transmigrates as the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao, arriving in a high-martial, immortal-cultivation version of the Ming Dynasty. The moment he opens his eyes, Wei Zhongxian is offering him a bowl of deer-blood tonic laced with arsenic, while his personal female official, Ke Shi, watches him covetously from outside the hall. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao realizes that within the palace he has a loving mother, a stern uncle, and a dutiful younger brother, while outside, the entire court is packed with upright officials and the country is teeming with vibrant organizations. The two empress dowagers, Empress Lü and Wu Zetian, show him their warm concern. On the northern frontier, his good uncle, Prince of Yan Zhu Di, commands a mighty army. Inside the imperial palace stands the Tiance Palace, and his younger brother Zhu Youjian likes to practice archery beneath Xuanwu Gate. He is known as Zhu Xuanwu. At court, there is Cao Cao, who loves drinking and passing judgment on others. There is Zhao Kuangyin, who likes to wear yellow. There is also the palace's star dancer, An Lushan. And the nimble fat man, Dong Zhuo. Beyond the frontier, Genghis Khan, a peerless conqueror of his age, draws his bow and shoots eagles. The Yellow Turban Army is led by the three Zhang brothers. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong establish the Great Shun Dynasty. Hong Xiuquan sweeps across the southeast, claiming he will establish a kingdom of heaven on earth. Zhu Youxiao is at a loss. How is he supposed to handle all this? Maybe he should just lie flat, drink the arsenic, and be done with it! Ding-dong! At the crucial moment, the Traitor System comes online. Zhu Youxiao's spirits lift. He drains a bowl of arsenic and declares, “I still have five hundred years left to live!”