[No System, no rebirth, an exhilarating political drama, four years and four months in the making!]
His parents are dead, and his treacherous clan members from a collateral branch have seized his ancestral property and humiliated his brothers!
Who could have guessed that this orphan of the Eight Banners, scorned and looked down upon by everyone, would one day become the most powerful official in the Great Qing?
He Shen bides his time, concealing his sharp edges as he builds his strength.
His clan takes his property? He throws the ancestral laws in their faces, leaving them utterly humiliated!
He’s insulted at the state school? His stunning command of both Manchu and Chinese leaves the children of the powerful in the dust!
The court makes things difficult for him? He advances step by step, leveraging imperial power to tear into a whole host of corrupt officials!
From a destitute orphan to an imperial bodyguard, from a low-ranking official to head of the Grand Council,
he can govern the country and manage its finances with his pen, command armies and quell rebellions with his sword, read an emperor’s mind, and wield power over all under heaven!
The powerful throughout the court fear him, the retired emperor favors him above all others, and even the new emperor dares not act rashly!
The world calls him a corrupt official for the ages, never knowing that he alone keeps the Great Qing’s treasury afloat and protects the people’s peace and security;
