Shen Yan, a doctor of history, woke up and became a prodigal playboy despised by everyone in the capital.
His father died in the war, his family fortune was ruined, and he had just been kicked from the brothel into the lotus pond.
It happened that 300,000 cavalry from the Northern Desert were marching south, and the empress Lin Zhaohuang wanted to lead the expedition in person, but no one in the civil and military dynasties dared to respond.
Shen Yan walked out of the queue of guilty ministers and signed a military order written in blood in the hall: "If you fail to win, please kill the three clans of the ministers."
Everyone was waiting to see this idiot's joke.
However, in the days that followed, he impressed celebrities all over the world with his three frontier fortress poems, raised millions of military salaries with nothing, and defeated the enemy's vanguard with 3,000 remaining soldiers.
Among thousands of troops, he surrendered the enemy's elite with just one word, which made the empress look at him differently for the first time.
In the court, he brought down the powerful officials of three dynasties with ironclad evidence.
On the Jiangnan battlefield, he defeated the vassal rebels with business warfare, dissension, and fire attacks.
It took him less than a year to go from being a laughingstock to being a military advisor among tens of thousands of people.
And the cold, arrogant and decisive empress also shed the emperor's armor through life and death again and again.
"Shen Yan, what reward do you want?"
"I am hired by the country. In the history books, I am only Lin Zhaohuang's Shen Yan."
