After Faking His Death, the Chancellor Gives Up and Coasts

He was Shen Jinghan, the “Jade-Faced Asura,” the empire’s sharpest blade. For the sake of the empire, he joined forces with Emperor Xiao Heng to lay a breathtakingly daring scheme: a staged death, the classic case of a bow discarded once the birds are gone!

When the prime minister “died,” the enemy nation rejoiced. Amid Jiangnan’s misty rain, the carefree Shen Xian was born. To enemy spies, he was nothing but a master of spectacularly giving up: blowing up the kitchen, tinkering with woodworking, and lying flat. What a thoroughly useless remnant of the former dynasty!

That is, until the “faithless” Emperor Xiao Heng came charging in, eyes bloodshot, grabbed him by the collar, and roared, “Shen Jinghan! Come back with me! I can’t rule this empire without you!” (Now that’s commitment to the act!)

Shen Xian spat out a melon seed shell and looked utterly dejected. “Your Majesty? You’ve got the wrong person. I’m Shen Xian, a commoner who only knows how to lie flat.” Inside, he laughed coldly. The fish was about to take the bait!

An emperor chasing his beloved? A prime minister giving up? It was all an act! Beneath the warm sunshine and homely comforts lurked a deadly edge. The Asura’s blade was being honed anew, while the emperor who ruled the realm wove his net. When the enemy finally made a move, how would this grand drama of sovereign and subject falling out end?

When the smoke of war cleared, the play was over, but the cast remained. Watch the powerful minister turn the final act into a tale of family and country, seasoned with all the everyday essentials, that even the enemy nation would admire!

Open the book and uncover the peerless double act performed for the safety of the realm, hidden behind “giving up” and “total control”!