The Ming Dynasty Night Watch: I Devoured the Mandate System from the Start

Name: The Ming Dynasty Night Watch: I Devoured the Mandate System from the Start
Author: Reading by Lamplight on a Rainy Night

大明缉夜司：开局反吞天命系统

by Reading by Lamplight on a Rainy Night (雨夜执卷)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 776k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
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Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Pei Zhao wakes in the water prison of the imperial jail, with a Mandate System that devours his lifespan and gnaws away at his mind.

For others, getting a System is a blessing. The one he got is a death sentence: disobey, and he dies; obey, and he gradually becomes a tool the System uses to keep itself alive by borrowing his life.

If it wants to use him as a shell, Pei Zhao will dismantle the System first, devour its Hosts, and seize its power to divide up lifespans.

From bizarre cases in the imperial jail to black seals in the ghost market, from life-borrowing medicine to the Night Patrol Bureau's old files, he solves murders, devours cheat abilities, snatches seals of office, and climbs the ranks, all the way to the heart of the Ming Dynasty's power over life and death.

This isn't a story about “getting a System.” It's about devouring everything that tries to control him.

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