I, the Alchemy Emperor, Went on a Rampage After Being Reborn as a Death Row Inmate

I am the most debauched emperor in the Great Zhou dynasty, obsessed with alchemy. I left the Dragon Throne empty and insisted on becoming an immortal.

Then the furnace of Nine-Turn Golden Elixir exploded.

I not only failed to ascend to immortality, but shrank into a sixteen-year-old boy and was thrown into death row.

The guards took me for a fool, local gentry tried to steal my “little sister,” and even the county clerk dared mix sand into my food.

Ha! Did they really think their former emperor was made of clay?

In prison, I wrote “treasonous poems,” every line concealing secrets of the court.

I became sworn brothers with the county magistrate, then turned around and dug up evidence of his corruption.

Then a letter in my own hand unexpectedly made its way to the capital, where it caught the attention of the new emperor in the Golden Palace: my newly enthroned Crown Prince.

“Your Majesty, these words… they look so much like the late emperor’s.”

Son, your father isn’t dead.

You can sit on the Dragon Throne for me for now.

Just wait until I crawl out of death row…