An Iron Grip on Power: Starting Out as a Kyoto Playboy

After lying low for eighteen years, he was Kyoto’s most “ordinary” student.

He wore old clothes, squeezed onto buses, and endured countless sneers. Even the spoiled heir who pestered the campus belle dared to mock him without restraint.

Gu Wenqu? Just a cowardly pauper anyone could push around!

No one knew that beneath his calm gaze lay a fearsome authority and deep-seated fury, powerful enough to overturn Kyoto.

The moment he came of age, the dragon emerged from the abyss!

When the black card, signet ring, and loyal guards symbolizing the authority of the Gu family’s third generation were respectfully presented to him,

the “ordinary” youth shed his disguise, a cold glint blazing in his eyes!

The Kyoto Gu family, a top-tier dynasty that ruled the military, government, business, and underworld: he, Gu Wenqu, was its one and only crown prince!

Those who once looked down on him? Now he could crush them with a flick of his hand!

The rich kid who swaggered around outside the school gates? His family went bankrupt overnight, and he ended up on his knees, begging for mercy!

The underworld boss who dared to provoke him? Found dead in the street the next day, his entire organization uprooted!

His political rivals who stirred up trouble? They were ruined and thrown in prison in the blink of an eye!

He played by no rules, caring only about results. Those who followed him were not guaranteed to prosper, but those who opposed him would die! He struck without hesitation and left nothing behind!

I hold the pieces in Kyoto’s game of power!

At the country’s top university, he was a low-profile academic genius and the emperor pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

In the business world, he could summon storms with a wave of his hand, swallow up his rivals, and build a trillion-yuan empire.

At the heart of political power, he could shape the course of events with a smile and treat so-called bigwigs as pawns.

If he called the skies over Kyoto dark, no one would dare call them bright!

With beauties by his side, he stood at the pinnacle of power!

The aloof campus belle fell for him, the dashing policewoman yielded to him, the business queen was willing to become his blade, and the mysterious agent pledged herself to him.