The Great Xia Prince Who Married into His Wife's Family

Gu Yunzhou, a top history student, transmigrates into the Great Xia Dynasty as its least favored seventh prince, a spineless man sent to serve as a live-in son-in-law in the household of a powerful minister.

He’s poisoned from the start, but luckily, the “Foolish Emperor’s Destiny System” activates just in time!

[Newbie mission: Flip over the table in front of everyone at your father-in-law’s birthday banquet!]

[Mission reward: One Marrow-Cleansing Pill and the peerless cultivation manual, Dragon-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Art!]

Gu Yunzhou: “...Are you sure you’re helping me, and not just trying to get me killed faster?”

To stay alive, he has no choice but to set out on the path of a foolish emperor, tears in his eyes.

At court, he proposes draining the treasury to build the Star-Picking Tower. The officials curse him, and public anger boils over. Meanwhile, he quietly checks in and receives a million dan of disaster relief grain.

On the battlefield, he replaces the generals mid-campaign and appoints a spoiled playboy as marshal. The whole army despairs, but then he pulls out the plans for the Zhuge repeating crossbow and defeats a force of one hundred thousand with just three thousand troops.

Years later, as Gu Yunzhou sits upon the supreme Dragon Throne, he looks at the Great Xia Dynasty, which he has “run into the ground” into a land of prosperity and strength, receiving envoys from every nation, and wears an utterly innocent expression.

“I really only wanted to be a foolish emperor. Why do you keep mistaking my antics for brilliant foresight?”

The officials: “Your Majesty is wise beyond compare. We are the fools!”

Gu Yunzhou: “...”

I’m exhausted. Why is it so hard to become a wise ruler for the ages?