[Fictional setting + political intrigue + passionate action + struggle for supremacy + ruthless battles]
After dying suddenly from overwork, a modern-day office drone finds himself inhabiting the body of a puppet emperor in a fictional dynasty, powerless under the control of two powerful in-law factions: the empress and the empress dowager.
From the start, he's in hell, trapped between two factions with his life hanging by a thread.
To protect himself, he stakes his life on approaching the empress dowager in the dead of night, forming a fragile political alliance as "mother and son" to stand against the wildly ambitious empress.
To break the powerful ministers' monopoly, he takes an unconventional path, following ancient precedent to establish the Eastern Depot, a secret police agency staffed by eunuchs. He appoints a trusted confidant as its director, granting him the power to execute first and report later.
He makes the realm his chessboard and the despised eunuch faction his claws, unleashing a bloody storm at court. From a puppet everyone could bully, he gradually transforms into an iron-fisted emperor who makes every official tremble.
He swears to drag everyone who has looked down on him or manipulated him, along with the mighty clans behind them, into an abyss from which there is no escape.
It's only Chapter 14 and you're so crazy
It's too short, let's gain weight before watching👀
Okay, pretty good
It looks okay so far