Virtue Is Not My Strong Suit, Yet You Want Me to Be the First Prime Minister

Xia Ren, a devoted follower of Mr. Hou's sayings with his head full of “success manuals,” transmigrates to the Great Yan Empire, where war is raging across the land!

This empire is like a Cyberpunk version of a battered Earth. Its technology rivals that of the modern age, yet everyone can harness the “source” hidden within them, making them superhuman.

Unfortunately, Xia Ren is a “good-for-nothing” with no source, but at least he has a golden finger:

“Reply,” “Imitate,” “Improve,” and “Make Worse.”

Now, a million-strong demon army is massing at the border, ready to trample the land, while within the empire, the demon race conspires with corrupt aristocratic clans to secretly stir up trouble.

By a twist of fate, he ends up in the position of Great Yan's prime minister.

But this prime minister has neither the talent to reshape the world nor a compassionate heart. His head is full of Mr. Hou's crooked notions about “making money and making waves.”

He also has a shameless lust for women and an imagination with absolutely no moral limits.

He plunders the aristocratic clans' mountains of gold to fund the army, tricks the demon race out of their treasures, then turns the tables on the villains.

Under the pretext of “choosing consorts,” he gathers beautiful women and brilliant talents from every corner, then uses Mr. Hou's success-manual tricks to fool his civil and military officials.

He even turns Confucian classics into “marketing manuals,” using manipulative tactics to leave the regional lords reeling...

When the court officials call him “a treacherous minister who will ruin the country” and the women call him “a scumbag prime minister,”

Xia Ren holds a cigarette between his fingers and grins with smug, infuriating delight.

“Mr. Hou said that those who achieve great things needn't sweat the small stuff...”

“Besides, to save the world, don't you need to be shameless and a little lecherous to really get things done?”