Gu Beiwang transmigrates to the Great Xuan Empire and becomes a low-ranking Hanlin Academy compiler.
Just as a great plague sweeps the land, the regent princess, Ye Lanchuan, is on the brink of death.
At the critical moment, he awakens the “Reverse National Fortune System.”
Its missions are downright insane: storm the princess’s bedchamber, strip off five layers of her phoenix robes, and lock her in an ice cellar for three days!
Refuse, and he dies on the spot; obey, and his entire clan is executed.
Gu Beiwang grits his teeth and, under the blades of the assembled officials, forcibly drags the princess into the ice cellar.
Who would have thought that three days later, her fever would break and she would miraculously survive?
It turns out the clothes had to be removed to cool her down, and the ice cellar was the only available isolation and purification chamber.
From then on, Great Xuan has a madman on the surface, clear-headed underneath, a demon who turns the world upside down.
He slaps corrupt princes and sets the imperial ancestral temple ablaze, yet every time, his actions become miraculous feats that save the nation.
The officials weep bitterly. “Lord Gu is willing to shoulder the blame for all eternity for the greater good!”
The empress grits her teeth. “Gu Beiwang, who were you trying to save when you snuck into my bedchamber last night?”
Gu Beiwang: “Your Majesty, I discovered that your bedchamber needs a lightning rod installed…”
