The Marquis's Heir: From Gambling Debts to Ruling the Realm

[Political intrigue, iron-willed hero, nation-building and a comeback, head-on clashes at court, an empress in the harem]

After being reborn as the dissolute heir of the Marquis of Military Might’s estate, Shen Mo starts off owing thirty thousand taels in gambling debts. With the clan elders about to strip him of his title and throw him out, he turns the tables and creates a lottery, raking in two hundred thousand taels overnight! Armed with a search engine as his golden finger, he goes from using government bonds to shape national policy to wiping out sixty thousand enemies on the battlefield, from holding public trials for corrupt officials to cleansing Qiongzhou. Though he only wanted to protect himself, Shen Mo steadily steps onto the path to ruling the realm.

In the throne hall, the empress grants him a marriage. In front of all the officials, he grabs her dragon robe by the collar.

“Shen Mo! How dare you! I’ll have you killed!”

“Kill me? Your Majesty, if you kill me, who will feed your two hundred and fifty thousand frontier troops? Who will pacify Yanyun and crush the southern frontier for you?”

The empress trembles with rage, but can’t utter a single word.

Later, when the princess royal pressures him to marry her, he coldly pushes her away. “I will not marry.”

“You!” The princess royal’s eyes redden with anger. “You’d marry that lowly maid but not me, the princess?”

Shen Mo doesn’t even look at her. “She is my lawfully wedded wife. As for you, if you want to enter the marquis’s estate, get in line.”

From the throne hall to the battlefield, from the court to the county yamen, he puts corrupt officials who sacrifice living people on public trial, and scatters an invading army of sixty thousand from the southern frontier with a smile. The princess royal, the celebrated courtesan, and the empress: he gives none of them special treatment. See how Shen Mo uses a search engine to turn the tide, rising from crushing gambling debts to ruling the realm and forging an age of peace that will last for generations, with the people hailing him for all time!