From a Mass Grave, I Pick Up a Transmigrator to Help Me Become Emperor

In the fourteenth year of the Tianbao era, Chang’an falls. I, the most disgraced illegitimate son of the Cui clan, born of barbarian blood, have my legs broken by my own brother and am thrown onto a pile of corpses to die.

At the height of my despair, a woman covered in blood appears before me. She claims to come from another world, knows the future, and can help me ascend the throne. In return, she wants to be my empress.

From then on, two villains cast aside by the world form the most dangerous alliance. Her blade is her cunning; mine is slaughter. Amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, we scheme, exploit, betray, and cling to each other, trampling this broken age beneath our feet.

I thought we were each other’s only salvation, kindred spirits forged in fire.

But I had no idea she had already laid the gentlest, deadliest trap of all for me.

When the blade from the side of my bed pierced my chest, I finally understood: the ultimate price of defying fate is not becoming a tyrant, but burying everything I have with my own hands…