After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Made the Empress Regret It

Modern office drone Lin Chen wakes up to find he’s become an illegitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household. Bound to a marriage contract with the empress from the start? He immediately gives up. Are you kidding? Marrying the empress means competing with a bunch of nobles for her favor, and he might even end up banished to the cold palace. Whoever wants that life can have it!

To get out of the engagement, he spends five years acting like a wastrel, finally waiting for the empress’s decree canceling the marriage. But just after he’s kicked out of the duke’s estate, his golden finger kicks in: his mind is suddenly filled with modern knowledge, poetry, and songs!