After Failing the Exams, I Topple the Great Clans, and the Female Emperor Begs Me to Become the Top Scholar

My name is Ning Chen.

After being killed by a hundred-ton truck, I transmigrated to the Great Wei Dynasty.

After more than a decade of hard study, I finally made it into the imperial examinations.

And yet…

Someone else took my results.

The culprit was a scion of the powerful Gao clan of Luonan, the son of the current Grand Commandant, Gao Yanei.

With a sesame flatbread worth fifty taels in his hand, he told me that dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget phoenixes.

Children of poor commoners

could only be stepping stones beneath their feet, sacrificing everything to help them rise to greatness.

I refused to accept it. In my rage, I awakened the “Emotion Guidance” System.

“Are kings and nobles born to rule?!”

“The heavens are dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, good fortune shall reign across the land!”

…

I am Xiao Linyue, the Empress of Great Wei.

Since ascending the throne, I have worked from dawn to dusk to govern the empire, terrified that Great Wei would fall and I would become its last ruler.

One day, I obtained a “Simulation System.”

When I started running simulations,

I discovered that ten years later, Great Wei really did fall at my hands. As the ruler of a fallen dynasty, I burned myself to death on the Deer Terrace.

I couldn’t take it anymore.

After running simulation after simulation, I discovered that the mastermind behind it all was actually a failed candidate turned rebel?!

I tried to change the future, but failed every time.

So

I decided to talk to the rebel leader.

…

“Stop rebelling. I’ll give you back the top scholar title, and make you the chief minister.”

“No.”

“Then I’ll make you a prince and let you rule the empire alongside me.”

“Still no!”

At last, the empress fell to her knees and begged through her tears:

“Please, stop rebelling. I’ll do whatever you want…”