I, a Concubine's Son, Get Stronger with Every Promotion

He opened his eyes in the middle of a sea of flames.

Zhou Yunhu never imagined that, as soon as he transmigrated, he would become an illegitimate son targeted for murder by his stepmother.

The good news: he had bound himself to a promotion System. Every promotion made him stronger!

The bad news: the System said, “Report to your post first to activate.”

So he crawled out of the ruined temple, covered in blood, evaded his pursuers, and traveled a thousand miles to take up his post, starting as a lowly, despised county commandant who had bought his position.

He trains elite troops, suppresses bandits, saves the capital, and relieves Hangu Pass.

He fights battles no one else dares to fight and offends people no one else dares to cross.

He rises from seventh rank to third, from an unknown nobody to a marquis and a general.

But when news reaches the capital that he has carried out the ancient campaign at Langjuxu and captured the Xiongnu Chanyu,

the emperor who once pushed through opposition to promote him secretly summons his closest confidants in the dead of night.

“Zhou Yunhu needs to be reined in.”

By then, he commands hundreds of thousands of elite troops. In the northern frontier, people know only the Prince Who Guards the North, not the emperor.

His stepmother and useless older brother are still strutting around the capital, waiting to see him “grow too powerful for his own good and meet a miserable end.”

Zhou Yunhu looks at the imperial decree in his hand and smiles.

“You want to rein me in?”

“Old Emperor, is your throne getting uncomfortable?”