The Sui Dynasty: I Went to Break Off the Engagement and Mistook Yang Guang for My Father-in-Law

On the eve of the chaos that would engulf the late Sui Dynasty, Ye Feng transmigrates to Jiangdu and becomes the son of a small-time salt merchant. He awakens the [Complaints-for-Cash System] and even has an arranged childhood engagement. Thinking of the coming turmoil, Ye Feng rushes to break off the engagement, but by a stroke of bad luck, mistakes Yang Guang, who is secretly enjoying himself, for his future father-in-law!

“Father-in-law, the Sui Dynasty is doomed! The foolish emperor Yang Guang is wrecking everything. Half the people in the land will die, so what’s the point of getting married? Pack your bags and run! Come with me to Taiyuan!”

“When the poplar blooms, the plum blossoms... No songs of death on the road to Liaodong... Eighteen rebel kings!”

“Father-in-law, you don’t believe me? Yang Guang is the greatest tyrant and foolish emperor in history, bar none!”

Yang Guang: I admit I’m a foolish emperor, but why are there so many rebels?

Yang Guang: My worthy son-in-law, you say we can fleece the aristocratic clans?

Ye Feng: Exactly! If you don’t fleece them, they’ll fleece you...

Yang Guang: You say we can replace forced labor on the canals with “relief through work”?

Ye Feng: Paying people is better than using force.

Yang Guang: My worthy son-in-law, you say we can hold military examinations and recruit the heroes of Wagang?

Ye Feng: They’re joining Wagang for fame and glory, aren’t they?

And so,

Ye Feng goes with the flow, turning the foolish and tyrannical emperor’s every move into an unstoppable offensive. He saves the Sui Dynasty and restores its glory, even driving Li Er to take the military examinations and apply for a government post...