My Whole Family Are Bandits, and Father Forces Me to Take the Imperial Exams

After transmigrating as the only frail young master of Blackwind Stronghold, Shen Ning faces hell difficulty from the start:

He has only three months to live, the imperial court's hundred-thousand-strong army is at the gates, and he has a deadline to accept amnesty. Miss it, and the stronghold will be razed!

A fortune-teller once declared that his original body's fate was so unyielding it could overcome the court, and that he must never wield a blade. Only Shen Ning knows that beneath his sickly, fragile appearance lies the mind of a top bandit and the modern strategic vision of a master schemer.

His father wants him to take the top spot in the imperial examinations, believing his destiny will counter corrupt officials and guarantee an easy reversal. Shen Ning chooses another path. He will not rebel or claim the throne. Instead, he will use the rules to crush the rules.

He brings a bandit's mindset to court and uses dark humor to outmaneuver rotten political schemes. Entering the game through the imperial examinations, he gradually clears the entire stronghold's name, rising from a sickly bandit heir to top scholar and then chief grand secretary. He builds vital commercial networks, establishes a covert intelligence web, and breaks the great clans' monopolies, walking a tightrope between corruption and redemption.

All his life, he seeks only to break injustice and give ordinary, honest people a new set of rules that will keep them from being bullied.