[Hell from the Start, a Scumbag System Goes Live]
Fang Cheng'an transmigrates into the body of a banished ninth-rank county magistrate. With death staring him in the face, a nasty System pops into his mind:
“Ding! Beg at the city gate and scam people out of a thousand taels. Reward: an asphalt blueprint.”
Fang Cheng'an breaks down. “I'm a model citizen! You're forcing me to become a scumbag?!”
System: “Do it if you don't want to die.”
[Forced to Work, Shameless to the Extreme]
To stay alive, Fang Cheng'an tearfully accepts one outrageous mission after another:
Make glass and build roads, then fleece the capital's powerful nobles!
Start a newspaper and write trashy novels, making the stuffy old scholars choke with rage!
Turn the crown prince into a weirdo obsessed with sweeping the streets and cleaning out privies!
Get worshipped as a “gang leader” by beggars, and become infamous throughout the court!
The Grand Academician of the capital denounces him: “Outlandish contraptions will bring disaster upon the nation and its people!”
Fang Cheng'an grins like a fox. “But they'll help the common folk put food on the table~” (In his heart: I was forced into this!)
[Shameless Minister on the Outside, Falling Apart on the Inside]
Everyone thinks he's “the Great Jing's most shameless minister,” reeking of money and cursing people without batting an eye.
But behind closed doors, he cries as he writes in his diary:
“I don't want to be a scumbag! The System forced me to build roads and schools! These hypocrites are even more shameless than I am!”
When the nobles try to have him executed
Fang Cheng'an pulls out a pistol and roars, “Did you really have to force me to bully people from the past with modern weapons?!”
[Crying His Way to Becoming the Most Infamous Minister in History]
Watch Fang Cheng'an, a low-ranking official, use the most shameless methods and outrageous schemes to cry his way into becoming a powerful minister who rules the court!
Comedy + nation-building + comeback. Shameless to the bone on the outside, wanting to cry on the inside!
