In his previous life, Murong Yuan was the youngest number one scholar in the empire, but because he was on the wrong team, he was framed by the powerful officials of the dynasty as a collaborator and had his entire family executed. Before he died, he realized that he was just a pawn - the woman who kept saying she loved him poured poison into his throat with her own hands.
When he opened his eyes again, he went back to the rainy night when he failed the provincial examination when he was eighteen years old.
The dilapidated thatched hut, the moldy dry food, and the fiancée pretending to give her an umbrella outside the door, everything was exactly the same as in his memory. But this time, Murong Yuan was neither angry nor collapsed - he smiled.
In his previous life, he lost because he was too naive. In this life, he decided to be a "good official" through and through: he would learn to flatter, cling to the powerful, and step on others to gain power. However, for those who had harmed him in his previous life, he would make them lose clearly and die cleanly.
From a country scholar to a powerful official in the capital, from being stepped on by others to turning his hands to make clouds and turning his hands to make rain. Murong Yuan worked step by step, sending his enemies from the past life to a dead end one by one. But he didn't expect that when he finally climbed to the highest position, an unexpected person stood opposite him - that woman who had never appeared in his previous life. She held military power and asked him coldly: "Murong Yuan, do you still remember what you wanted in the first place?"
Machiavellian plots, revenge, counterattacks, and cruelty. This is the story of a ruthless man who is reborn and turns himself into a nightmare for his opponent.
