Cao Yan transmigrates to the Great Xia Dynasty, where he becomes a fake eunuch with an influential position in the imperial palace, only to get caught up in a corruption scandal involving the emperor's private treasury.
To stay alive, he's forced to offer all sorts of ruthless schemes!
The Empress: “Natural disasters and man-made calamities keep striking, the people are destitute, and both the national treasury and my private treasury are empty. What should I do?”
Cao Yan: “Simple, Your Majesty. Set up a tomb-raiding corps to loot the wealth in the graves of the powerful!”
Everyone: “What the hell? Isn't that just grave robbery?”
The Empress: “We've captured a rebel. How should we punish him to deter other lawbreakers?”
Cao Yan: “Your Majesty can have him executed by a thousand cuts in a busy square in the capital, with the people summoned to watch. That will scare off the petty criminals.”
The Empress: “What does ‘a thousand cuts’ mean?”
Cao Yan: “Wrap the prisoner in a fishing net, then cut off his flesh piece by piece, for a total of 3,600 cuts.
“Don't let him die before all the cuts are done.”
The Empress and her ministers all draw a sharp breath. “We've seen plenty of living Bodhisattvas, but this is the first living King of Hell we've ever met!”
This emperor will not abandon the throne and run away with the male protagonist in the end, right? [You taste it carefully] [You taste it carefully] [You taste it carefully] The male protagonist also has seventy or eighty wives [note] [note] [note]
This emperor will not abandon the throne and run away with the male protagonist in the end, right? [You taste it carefully] [You taste it carefully] [You taste it carefully] The male protagonist also has seventy or eighty wives [note] [note] [note]