[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms + wish fulfillment + court intrigue + transmigrator + ruthless action + System]
“Dog emperor, take this!”
“What? You want to kill me? Did I give you permission?”
[From today onward, I, Chai Rong, will be the only master of this chaotic age!]
Zhou Qiang, a modern man, transmigrates into the Later Zhou dynasty and becomes its emperor, Chai Rong.
He has a System that hunts down transmigrators. Capturing or killing one earns him a System reward.
Later Zhou stands at the end of the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, one of its most turbulent eras.
Guo Wei has just died, and Chai Rong has just taken the throne.
The Khitan and Northern Han forces loom menacingly in the north, while rival regimes such as Southern Tang, Wuyue, and Later Shu hold sway in the south.
Within the empire, military governors are entrenched, military power is divided, and the people are unsettled. Everywhere, the chilling sense prevails that “human lives are as worthless as grass.”
At the same time, Chai Rong must contend with a group of transmigrators whose motives are unclear and whose golden fingers differ from one another.
As he pushes ahead with reforms and strengthens the army, he carefully sorts them out: Who can serve his cause, and who harbors treacherous intentions?
Using modern thinking to reshape the imperial court, he keeps a firm grip on the emperor’s power and never blindly trusts “bonds between fellow townsmen.”
As the tides of history clash fiercely with modern knowledge, trust and scheming intertwine beneath the imperial throne.
Can this most unlikely of emperors hold onto his realm and unite the land amid a chaotic wave of transmigrators?
An unconventional historical wish-fulfillment story blending court intrigue, humor, and a refusal to follow the usual tropes begins here.
This book has a compact plot, constant twists and turns, and is gripping at every step. The writing is delicate and the characters are three-dimensional, making people think about it for a long time after reading it.