Reborn as Cao Zhi, I Win Beautiful Women and Become Emperor

I am Cao Zhi. In my previous life, my own brother poisoned me to death. Reborn at nineteen, I looked at the boy in the mirror who had yet to master the art of composing a poem in seven steps, and smiled. This time around I’ll save Zhen Mi from the forced marriage she was destined for on the battlefield at Guandu, and make her my empress. I’ll ransom Cai Wenji from the Xiongnu and have her oversee the Hall of Literary Brilliance, compiling classics for the ages. I’ll win over the Han dynasty assassin who tried to kill me three times, turning her from an enemy into my sharpest blade. I’ll get Sun Shangxiang of Jiangdong to train a women’s army of her own free will, and have the Qiao sisters cross the river north to join me. As for the throne? Cao Pi, I remember every trick you pulled. Sima Yi, I saw through your ambition long ago. Zhuge Liang, it’s time you reconsidered your theory of Heaven’s mandate. When I write “Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River” at the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, detonate gunpowder at Wuzhang Plains, and sign a transmigrator’s name in the tomb beneath Mount Li this world will learn to live by a different set of rules.