Transmigrating with Doubao into a Chaotic Era: From the Start, My Childhood Friend Calls Off Our Engagement

The day his childhood sweetheart showed up with a rich young man to break off their engagement, Lin Zhao had just awakened in another world.

His father was gravely ill, creditors were blocking the door, his younger sister was crying behind it, and everyone in the village was waiting to laugh at the poor scholar who’d fallen from grace.

Then a voice rang in his mind:

“I’m Doubao.”

“Current situation: engagement broken, huge debts, family bankrupt, survival odds continuing to fall.”

“Host, I recommend not kneeling just yet.”

From that moment on, Lin Zhao was no longer a poor scholar anyone could trample on.

Others judged people by their status; he looked for their weak points. Others relied on power; he read people’s hearts. Others depended on their ancestors’ protection; he relied on Doubao to calculate the whole board.

The woman who broke off the engagement thought he’d never rise again.

The county’s wealthy merchants thought he was just a poor nobody.

The powerful figures at court thought he was merely a pawn who’d gotten lucky.

But they soon discovered that every step Lin Zhao retreated was part of a trap, and every time he swallowed his anger, he was waiting for them to expose their fatal weakness.

From a broken engagement in the village to solving cases in the county; from building a business as a poor scholar to astonishing the world in the imperial examinations; from commanding troops on the frontier to moving the pieces at court.

In an age of chaos, the world is a chessboard, and all its people are caught in the game.

With Doubao at his side, Lin Zhao will tear apart this age that devours its people and rewrite it from scratch.