On the Overwhelming Advantage of an Emperor Reborn as a Fifth-Rank Official

What happens when the chubby Emperor Yin Zhen from Empresses in the Palace transmigrates into the Red Wolf from The Story of Minglan? Watch as the chubby emperor crushes the competition with an overwhelming advantage!

I, the Yongzheng Emperor of the Great Qing, ultimate victor in the struggle among the nine princes, absolute master of three thousand beauties in the imperial harem...

Wake up to find myself as Sheng Hong, a mere fifth-rank official.

A foolish father who favors his concubine and neglects his wife, and is completely under the thumb of a woman named Lin Qinshuang?

What a joke.

What kind of scheming women haven't I seen in the imperial harem? Hua Fei coquettish, the Empress virtuous, Zhen Huan pretending to be obedient.

Weren't they all tricks I had seen before?

Lin Qinshuang's tearful little act wouldn't even earn her a promise in my Hall of Mental Cultivation.

On my first day here, Lin Qinshuang cried, "Shuang'er won't do it again." I slapped her outright. "The thing I hate most in the palace is affectation."

Wang Ruofu wanted to use her status as the legitimate mother to put someone in their place? I looked at her calmly. "You don't have even a tenth of the Empress's skill."

As for those colleagues trying to curry favor with the Sheng family, and those opponents trying to take us down...

I smiled faintly, turning the inner household into the imperial court and the outer courtyard into a battlefield. Those old foxes at court couldn't outplay me, and you think you can?

Only...

That little girl Minglan keeps reminding me of Longyue.

And that Gu Erlang, why is he more difficult to deal with than Nian Gengyao?

Never mind. Since Heaven has given me another life, I will uphold the Sheng family.

As for the First Madam, Concubine Lin, Rulan, Molan... all of you, behave yourselves.

I rule my harem, and the Sheng family is no different.