Synopsis of His Majesty, Your System Is Offline Again:
“Congratulations, Host! You are now bound to the ‘Wise Ruler Development System’! Current mission: Survive today at the hands of Left Chancellor Chu Linyuan!”
Lu Ziming woke up transmigrated as a foolish emperor, bound to an unreliable System. The former emperor had been depraved and tyrannical, power had fallen into other hands, and history said he would be poisoned to death by the sitting left chancellor in three months!
At court, the handsome left chancellor Chu Linyuan, clad in purple robes and a jade belt, gazed at him with an inscrutable smile. “Your Majesty looks well today.” The System's alarm immediately blared: “SSS-level dangerous target! The former emperor died at his hands!”
Faced with this minister, who seemed gentle as jade but was actually ruthless, Lu Ziming had no choice but to maintain his foolish-emperor act while secretly pushing through reforms:
“My dear minister is right. I have decided to... (checks System cheat sheet) build waterways, open schools, and hold the imperial examinations?”
Chu Linyuan's hand, idly turning a cup of poisoned wine, suddenly stopped. “Your Majesty has been... quite interesting lately.”
When Lu Ziming unexpectedly discovered that the broken jade pendant at Chu Linyuan's waist matched the one hidden in a secret compartment in his bedroom;
when the System's scan showed that Chu Linyuan's murderous intent and favorability toward him were rising at the same time;
when, in the dead of night, the man who had vowed to take his life shielded him from a fatal sword strike...
“System! This isn't how the story was supposed to go!”
“Bzz... Warning... Abnormal energy fluctuations detected in target... Bzz... He may also be...
