Transmigration: Starting Out as a Bandit

[Transmigration + political intrigue + wish-fulfillment]

Lin Zhao, a literature PhD from a top university, opens his eyes to find himself transmigrated into the body of a hostage kidnapped by bandits.

With a knife at his throat, he thinks fast: "You’d be making a huge mistake if you killed me!"

And so begins his cheat-powered life in a bandit stronghold.

He teaches the bandits about KPIs and uses management theory to whip their lair into shape; he sneaks into a pawnshop at night and gets his hands on the ledgers proving Black Wind Stronghold is smuggling supplies to the enemy; he kills two birds with one stone, using government troops to wipe out his sworn enemy.

Just as he’s about to uncover the mastermind, a powerful figure at court shuts down the investigation.

With nowhere left to go in the bandit stronghold, he leads his brothers to enlist on the southern front, rising step by step from a mere scholar to a general.

Back in the capital to report on his mission, he’s sidelined and pushed aside. But in the archives, he uncovers a bloody case from ten years ago.

The emperor dies, a young ruler takes the throne, and Lin Zhao becomes a regent with power over the entire court.

He campaigns south against the Baiyue, marches north against the Beidi, and earns the title Wolf Dweller at Mount Xu.

He thinks his life has been worth it, until the woman he loves most takes a stray arrow for him.

"I told you... bookish types like you... die so easily..."