Great Ming: My Father Yan Shifan Taught Me to Become History's Greatest Villain

High-IQ power games, ruthless ambition, and the ultimate wish-fulfillment rush. No saintly do-gooder here: he uses the dirtiest tricks to forge the strongest Ming dynasty!

Reborn as Yan Shaoting, grandson of the Ming dynasty's greatest corrupt official, Yan Song, and son of Yan Shifan, he looks at the mountains of gold and silver piled in the storerooms and realizes the Yan family has only three years left before they are all executed.

In his previous life, he turned in his own family for the sake of justice and regretted it for the rest of his life. This time, Yan Shaoting decides to become a thoroughly wicked man.

“Grandfather, cultivating immortality is no match for maritime trade. I'll help you fleece the wealthy merchants of the southeast!”

“Father, your corruption methods are too crude. Let me teach you about ‘front men’ and ‘offshore transfers’!”

The virtuous faction's chosen son has prepared irrefutable evidence to destroy the Yan family? Yan Shaoting simply burns down the archives, then tosses in compromising evidence against the virtuous faction's mentor for good measure.

A corrupt official and inside man wants to defect? Yan Shaoting uses someone else to do the dirty work, leaving the man and his entire clan to die in the Embroidered Uniform Guard's prison!

Years later, the Jiajing Emperor looks at the tens of millions of taels of silver in the state treasury and pats Yan Shaoting on the shoulder. “The Ming dynasty cannot do without the Yan family!”