[No System + Frail Strategist + Brothers Who Never Betray Each Other + Masterful Scheming + Overwhelming Advantage]
“Your Majesty, Marshal Gu commands a million troops, Yan, the richest man in the realm, controls all the money and grain, and Commander Lu has dirt on every official...”
“These three men are so powerful they threaten the throne. If we don’t eliminate them, the imperial authority is in danger!”
On the first day of the new dynasty, all the civil and military officials knelt in the Golden Hall, weeping and pleading with the emperor to kill the men who had helped him seize power.
On the dragon throne, Shen Qi, frail and sickly, suddenly coughed up blood. He looked down at the sour-faced scholars as if they were idiots.
“You may have misunderstood something.”
“They forced this throne on me. Back in the death-row camp, they were the ones who saved my life.”
Shen Qi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and leaned back.
“Lu Zheng, take care of it.”
A shadow flashed by. The officials who had led the petition moments before fell, their heads rolling across the floor.
Shen Qi looked at the courtiers’ ashen faces and said coldly, “From today on, anyone who tries to drive a wedge between the four of us will have their entire clan wiped out for ten generations.”
Everyone under heaven thinks he is a ruthless, sinister man, alone at the top.
But no one knows that in the dead of night, the living King of Hell who rules the realm is still the poor death-row prisoner who gave his brother the only half a bun he had left.
