Overnight, I transmigrated and became Zhang Baigui, the Ming Dynasty's child prodigy.
I thought that with the memories of a future master at my fingertips, I could dominate the imperial examinations and live carefree in officialdom.
But at a prince's birthday banquet, a single whim from the powerful led to my grandfather being humiliated and murdered, and my father being framed.
In one night, my family was destroyed!
Kneeling in the ancestral hall, I swore a blood oath: If the sages' books cannot save my loved ones, then I will wield power as my blade!
From now on, the naive child prodigy is "dead."
The one who survives is Zhang Juzheng.
For ten years, I kept my head down, amassed wealth through commerce, and secretly wove a web of connections, while rising swiftly through the imperial examinations.
In court, Xu Jie saw me as the blade that would kill Yan Song, while Gao Gong took me for a meek and submissive deputy minister.
Neither of them knew that I was watching this game with cold eyes, waiting for the day I could make the moves myself!
At last, I stood atop the peak of power, with my enemies' bones beneath my feet and the entire Ming Empire at my back.
The young Wanli Emperor looked up and called me "Teacher."
The ministers throughout the court trembled before me.
Now it was time to wield the authority in my hands to purge this decaying empire to the bone and forge a new world of iron and blood!
This book is very nice. Super pretty.