I Just Faked My Death, and Two Empresses Have Blocked My Door with Their Armies

Gu Changyuan transmigrates as the regent of the Great Yan dynasty, a tyrant with absolute power at court.

The System’s mission is to make him the greatest villain and force the neglected Ninth Princess to become an emperor for the ages.

In public, he acts arrogant and domineering. In secret, he shields her from countless assassins and clears her path to the throne.

When she joins forces with the hypocritical male lead and marches on the capital, Gu Changyuan sets the Star-Picking Tower on fire, laughs as he fakes his death, and retires after completing his mission.

After his death, the empress digs out of the ruins his diary, filled with the words “Keep her safe,” along with the bones of three thousand secret guards who died for her in the underground palace...

The Great Yan empress goes completely mad!

Meanwhile, Gu Changyuan, having received his max-level retirement reward, is running a pleasure house on the frontier, listening to music and fishing, living the good life.

Until one day, the mad empress of Northern Mang, whom he had once secretly advised, leads three hundred thousand cavalry over the frontier!

She hasn’t come to take the city. She has come to have the tavern owner doing the books bound up in public and brought back to Northern Mang as her imperial husband!

When the Great Yan empress hears the news, her eyes turn blood-red, and she personally leads an army into battle!

Beneath the frontier city walls, two armies face off, ready to fight, all over one man...

Gu Changyuan sighs helplessly. “I just wanted to retire in peace. Why have you all come looking for me?”