You Failed the Civil Service Exam, So You Stormed Chang'an Instead?

[Decisive and ruthless] [Hard-hearted] [Satisfying]

Xia Yuan transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and discovers that the powerful clans monopolize the government, while the imperial examination system exists in name only.

The court is full of members of the Five Surnames and Seven Clans. The common people are displaced and suffering terribly.

That year, Xia Yuan clearly passes the imperial examination, but a scion of a powerful clan takes his place.

The scion says, "You may have studied hard for ten years, but how could you compare with a century of our family's accumulated power?"

Xia Yuan silently nods, puts down the book of sages, and thinks: If I can't pass the exams and enter Chang'an, then I'll fight my way into Chang'an.

That year, he awakens a Slaughter System and goes completely berserk.

You can see all the flowers in Chang'an in a single day. Then I'll trample the streets until the bones of the nobles are all that's left.

He slaughters every powerful clan in the capital and beheads every official of the third rank or higher, carving out a way forward for the common people of future generations.

The powerful clans say, "I don't understand! Why, after this man fought his way in, did he take neither money nor food, but go straight for our family genealogy records?"

Could it be that he's afraid of us and wants to change his name to join the powerful clans himself?

Hahahaha! Of course! What emperor? We powerful clans are the true masters of this realm. Even Xia Yuan will end up as our dog.

When Xia Yuan glares at the powerful clans, holding the family records in one hand and a knife in the other, they finally understand.

"Oh no! Run! He took the family records so he could wipe us all out!"

"Who wrote these family records? We can't get away from him!"

Xia Yuan looks at the family records in his hand, which clearly list the names and children of all the powerful clans.

"Who said these records were useless? They're great. Now I don't have to hunt each of them down one by one."