The Embroidered Robe's Power Broker

Dark fantasy + political intrigue and an ensemble cast + court power struggles + ruthless protagonist + villainous lead + a protagonist with brains. Slow burn.

At the execution ground, he slandered the upright and loyal officials! Beneath the executioner's blade, one lie was all it took for him to snatch his life back from the King of Hell!

Lin Yuan transmigrates into the body of a condemned prisoner in the Great Yin dynasty, and from the start he's on the execution block! With death right before his eyes, he binds to the Cunning Hero System. To survive, he must do evil! Frame an incorruptible vice censor? He doesn't even blink! With a single claim that “beneath Qingfeng Mountain, a dragon robe lies hidden in a cellar,” he sends shockwaves through the court!

Though he narrowly escapes death, he falls into an abyss more terrifying than the grave: the Great Yin dynasty's darkest prison, run by the Embroidered Uniform Guard! To stay alive, he submits a bloody pledge of loyalty, turning an innocent minor official into the culprit in an ironclad case and climbing the ranks to become an investigator for the Embroidered Uniform Guard, stepping over the unjustly dead!

Now clad in the uniform, with a dark insignia at his waist, Lin Yuan walks the line between power and death.

But when he finally reaches the pinnacle of power, he discovers that Zhou Zhengchun, leader of the upright officials, has been reduced to a cripple and confined to his residence; the daughter of a military family sees him as her sworn enemy and vows revenge; and the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, seated in the shadows and fingering his prayer beads, is smiling as he places an even sharper, deadlier blade in Lin Yuan's hands. Its target: the all-powerful Marquis of Zhenbei's residence!

This is the path of a cunning hero, paved with lies and blood. From condemned prisoner at the execution ground to powerful official of the Embroidered Uniform Guard; from framing others to survive to holding life and death in his hands. Lin Yuan grips his Embroidered Spring Saber, his gaze ice-cold.

“The world calls me a corrupt villain? Fine! Then I'll be the most evil, most vicious, and... highest-ranking man in all of Great Yin!”