The Empress Bestowed Him as Her Kept Man, and You Dare Call Him a Lackey?

Chu Mubai is dead! An illegitimate son, he spent ten years adrift before finally returning to his biological father's side. He thought he had found someone to rely on and would finally rise above the rest. Instead, his stepmother, Madam Zheng, treated him as a threat to the family fortune and subjected him to inhuman abuse. His own father turned a blind eye. On a night of hunger and bitter cold, he died with dreams of a better life still in his heart. By chance, a soul from a later age transmigrated into his body. “Chu family, it's time you repaid me for all the oppression and injustice you've inflicted on me...” Inside the famous Hongwen Tower, “Before long, my name will be known throughout the land! Then my poems will be worth their weight in gold... For now, I'm selling wholesale, by the bulk.” Wholesale? By the bulk? Gazing at the poems in her hand, the empress's eyes gleamed. “Let's discuss an exclusive deal, for life.” “Well, the price is negotiable, but it won't come cheap!” Chu Mubai looked at her like a big bad wolf eyeing a little lamb.