[Underdog comeback + transmigration + empress + lighthearted + multiple heroines]
Before he transmigrated, Wei Ning’s grandfather was a barefoot doctor, his father was a hopeless alcoholic, and he was a high school graduate who had just gotten into college, only for his father to change his major to civil engineering.
After transmigrating, he wakes in a gloomy woodshed, with a whip-wielding guard and a marquis who likes men. He lies on a pile of straw. In an hour, he’ll either be beaten to death and tossed into a mass grave, or submit to the marquis.
Wei Ning: “This is terrifying.”
To save himself, he tries every trick he can think of. At last, he discovers a secret hidden in the marquis’s private chambers, relying on folk remedies from traditional Chinese medicine that his grandfather once taught him…
He saves his life and protects his backside.
In this feudal society, people are devoured alive. Wei Ning protects himself, studies, and builds a career…
From a lowly servant in a marquis’s household, he becomes the man behind Liang’s commercial empire, a victorious general who wages war across the land, and a powerful minister who dominates the court… He also becomes the man the empress longs for day and night.
Many years later, in the kitchen of Shiweiju, Wei Ning serves up a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
“Wei Ning, back when you marched south with the army to drive out the Japanese pirates, you and I stood by each other in our hour of danger. Now the borders are secure and the realm is at peace. Would you enter the palace and share the empire with me?”
