The Entire Court Transmigrated, So I Play an Actor on the Dragon Throne

Mingxi is reborn as the puppet emperor of Great Xia, and awakens mind-reading powers from the start. He hopes to read his ministers’ minds and seize power, but the thoughts ringing in his ears are downright absurd: The chancellor’s thoughts: [Progress on usurping the emperor: 3/10. Reward: modern management theory.] The general asks to go to war: [Wipe out the Xiongnu and unlock tank blueprints!] Even the deposed empress in the cold palace is sharpening her knife: [Third life after being reborn. This time, I’ll definitely kill the emperor.] Mingxi breaks into a cold sweat. Why are all the officials at court transmigrators? And they all have Systems, each convinced they’re the protagonist! His System issues a chilling warning: [Twelve “protagonist candidates” detected. Mission: maintain balance and prevent anyone from surpassing you. Failure will result in your erasure.] From then on, Mingxi puts on an act in court by day, pretending to be a naive, native-born emperor. At night, he secretly makes plans, using his modern mindset to set traps for these “fellow countrymen.” Until invaders from another world arrive, with mechanical battleships filling the sky and closing in on the capital. The Systems of all the transmigrators shriek at once: [Alert! A higher-dimensional Cleaner has arrived!] The “protagonists” of old turn pale and look toward the puppet emperor on the throne, the one they’ve always looked down on. Mingxi slowly rises to his feet. Behind him, the golden light of the imperial dragon veins shoots into the sky. He smiles and raises his middle finger to the stars: “You want to touch my people? Did you ask me, the ‘Guardian of Civilization,’ first?”...