Thanks for Asking, I'm in Cao Wei, and I've Become the Top Minister by Keeping My Head Down

Lin Yan, a graduate student in history, unexpectedly transmigrated into the Three Kingdoms era as Lu Ci, a poor scholar on the brink of death. From a dilapidated thatched hut on the outskirts of Xuchang to the dazzling glazed lamps hanging high in the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, he wielded his humble brush and stirred the winds of change despite his consumption-wracked body. He improved horse tack, devised strategies for fire attacks, and rewrote the old outcome at Guandu with his frail body, building a defiant line of defense before the flames of Red Cliffs. Cao Cao clapped his hands and laughed. “Having you at my side is like the First Emperor having Zhang Liang!” Before Guo Jia died, he entrusted Lu Ci with the Treatise on Ten Advantages and Ten Disadvantages. Even the usually stern Xun Yu tacitly approved when Lu Ci added his vermilion annotations to the land-reclamation plan. “Though I was born into this chaotic age, I will defy fate and carve out a third path.”