You Told Me to Play Dumb to Survive, So Why Am I Becoming a Powerful Official by Courting Death?

[Transmigration] [Invincible Reckless Hero] [Reverse Scheming] [Exhilarating Stress Relief] [Power Struggles]

Lu Ping'an wakes up from a serious injury to find he has transmigrated into the village idiot everyone in Xinghua Village knows.

His home is bare, his parents are dead, and a local bully from his clan has teamed up with the constables to show up and seize his house and fields, forcing him to sign a contract selling himself into servitude.

Lu Ping'an is delighted.

"Now that's an offer! This life was borrowed anyway. Why should I put up with this humiliation?"

He grabs his woodcutter's axe and swings it at them, chasing the bully and the constables all the way out of the yard.

"Come on! If you don't dare to hit me, you're a coward!"

When local gentry try to cut off his livelihood, he burns their granary overnight, then beats up the clan chief in the main street.

When the northern barbarians' cavalry charge south to breach the passes and the court officials all urge surrender, he charges into the enemy camp alone, killing their generals and capturing their banners.

He only wants to go out in a blaze of glory, yet somehow ends up accomplishing great deeds by sheer accident.

From the village idiot to a county constable, then from a ferocious frontier general to a member of the inner cabinet, he eventually rises to become chief minister.

By the time Lu Ping'an comes to his senses, the young emperor on the Dragon Throne is holding out a cup of hot tea, both hands trembling uncontrollably.

"My dear minister, you can have the final say in the empire. Please stop going crazy!"