I transmigrate to Great Chu, only to find myself from the start as a lowly ninth-rank county office tax clerk who can barely afford to eat. No dinging System, no old master living in my head. Faced with a deadly predicament where imperial authority has fallen into decline and powerful clans dominate the land, Bai glances at the official documents in his hands and decides to teach the ancients a thing or two with the ruthless office-politics tricks he learned in his previous life.
A noble family’s young master runs wild, throwing his weight around? Set him up with a honey trap and ruin his reputation! The county magistrate takes bribes and abuses his power? Use one trick to make an enemy kill him, then take over his estate and beautiful concubines! The powerful clans rig the civil service exams? Sorry, this official plays both sides, so I’m flipping the table and rewriting the unspoken rules of the exams!
By the time the lofty heads of the great clans realize what’s happening, the meek little tax clerk from the county office has already woven a vast web of interests spanning the realm. The peerlessly beautiful Empress on the throne bites her lip. “Minister Zhang, tell me: does this realm belong to Me, or to you?”
