Your Majesty, I Have a Plan to Make You Reviled for All Time

After transmigrating into a prisoner, he starts by presenting a vicious scheme to the empress, who is traveling incognito: “Your Majesty, plague is rampant along the South Willow River. Why not bundle up tens of thousands of plague-ridden corpses and send them downstream as a grand declaration of war to the Eastern Barbarians?”

The empress is stunned, going cold all over. “You beast! Thank goodness this fiend, whose heart harbors the malice of hell, is in my Great Xing, not an enemy state!”

Then she immediately gives a secret order to her closest confidants: “This beast must be protected! Anyone who dares harm him dies, without exception!”

From then on, Wen He becomes the sharpest blade in the empress’s hand, and her dirtiest chamber pot.

He proposes providing famine relief with bran, cutting off the noble clans’ source of wealth. With a single scheme, he digs up the ancestral graves of century-old aristocratic houses!

He plots to establish two new ministries and revise official ranks, using open tactics to throw the court into chaos and set the entire bureaucracy against itself on the empress’s behalf!

He tells the empress, “Those Your Majesty wants to kill but cannot, I will kill! I will bear the blame and the infamy for generations!”

The whole court hates him to the bone and sends assassins after him. He barely survives.

The empress is enraged and bathes the court in blood. Then she takes off her phoenix robes, changes into plain clothes, disguises herself as his personal maid, and makes medicine for him with her own hands.

Who could have guessed that the three dukes and nine ministers would immediately compete to stuff their own daughters into his bed!

The Grand General says, “My daughter is willing to serve you as a slave!”

Wen He replies, “How vulgar. Why not call her Hong Shu? A lovely woman is like a book, every page filled with beauty!”

Watching Wen He turn no one away, the empress beside him is so furious that she knocks over the medicine bowl. Her pretty face dark with anger, she says, “Wen He! You’re recovering far too quickly!”

Facing the jealous empress and enemies throughout the court, Wen He smiles faintly.

Your Majesty, don’t be impatient. On the road to unifying the realm, this is only an appetizer!