Your Majesty, Are You Coming Clean Today?

My name is Liu Xie, the Emperor Xian of Han.

After dying from an all-nighter, I transmigrated into my own body, still the puppet emperor controlled in turn by Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, and Cao Cao.

But this time, I got a cheat ability.

I can see words above everyone's head: loyalty, lifespan, and cause of death.

Cao Cao: [Loyalty: 12 (wants to kill you) · Lifespan: 66 years · Cause of death: migraines]

Guo Jia: [Loyalty: 31 (Cao Cao's man) · Lifespan: 38 years · Cause of death: alcoholism]

Dong Zhuo: [Loyalty: 0 · Lifespan: ... Wait a second, he only has three days left?]

So I made a decision:

No rebellion, no head-on fights, and no throwing my life away.

I'll just farm in Luoyang, cultivate wasteland, invent things, and train a new army.

Wait for Cao Cao to fight Yuan Shao. Wait for Yuan Shao to die.

Wait for Cao Cao to grow old. Wait for Cao Cao to fall ill.

Wait until everyone forgets there's still an emperor in this broken city.

Ten years later, as Cao Cao lay dying, he asked me, “Your Majesty, how did you endure it?”

I smiled.

When everyone else wanted to win, I chose to wait.

Wait for them to finish fighting, wait for them to grow old and die, wait for them to put the realm in my hands themselves.

That is the highest-level way for a transmigrator to play the game.