Something's Not Quite Right with My Empire

Xiao Chenyu, a history graduate crushed by office drudgery, unexpectedly transmigrates to another world and becomes the young puppet emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty.

At court, the empress dowager rules from behind the curtain, while powerful ministers hold sway over everything and treat him like a plaything in their hands.

Within the dynasty, national destiny is waning and the dragon veins are drying up. Cultivators everywhere live in fear, and the dynasty could fall at any moment.

Just as Xiao Chenyu thinks he has drawn the worst possible hand from the start, a golden finger called the [Strongest Tyrant in History System] falls from the sky.

“Ding! Newbie quest issued: Announce at the morning court that you will raise ten thousand crickets in the imperial garden to listen to the music of nature.”

“Ding! Main quest issued: Build the world’s most luxurious ‘Useless Palace’ and empty the national treasury.”

System: “Host, please trust this System. The growth of national destiny is often hidden beneath the most absurd appearances. To become an emperor for the ages, you must first become the greatest tyrant in history!”

And so, a tyrant who seems absurd and immoral, obsessed with pleasure, is born.

The court officials: “His Majesty has gone mad! Great Yan is doomed!”

The empress dowager and the powerful ministers: “Ha ha! This boy is no threat. Let him ruin himself with his toys. We’ll take his place when the time comes!”

But none of them know the truth.

When Xiao Chenyu fights crickets in the imperial garden, the dynasty’s withering dragon veins quietly begin to revive.

When he launches a massive construction project to build the “Useless Palace,” the dynasty’s formation hubs are being reactivated.

Years later, when Xiao Chenyu stands atop a divine dragon, his sword pointed at the world, with an invincible army wreathed in golden light of fortune behind him, the whole world is stunned.