From the Start, I Played Liu Shan and Became the Real Emperor

[Comedy + No Romance + Wish-Fulfillment + Workplace + Transmigration + Lighthearted Humor]

Zhou Jin’s job was to wear a dragon robe at a scenic site in thirty-degree heat, sit on a plastic throne, and say “Rise, my loyal subjects” eighty times a day.

Then he refused to take part in a vulgar livestream and his manager banished him to the warehouse. There, he accidentally unlocked the [Emperor’s Life Dungeon]: every seven days, he would experience life as a different emperor. He couldn’t leave until the dungeon ended, and the only way to clear it was to truly fulfill the duties of an emperor!

His first stop: the sixth year of Jingyao, as Liu Shan, the Later Lord of Shu Han.

Zhou Jin had assumed being emperor meant reviewing memorials, eating imperial feasts, and waiting for ministers to bow. Only after taking the throne did he discover that Jiang Wei was desperately demanding funds from the front lines, Qiao Zhou was preparing to surrender at court, Huang Hao controlled the palace’s information but lied about everything, local officials reported only good news, and the people just wanted to know whether they would be forced to hand over grain again that year.

And Deng Ai had already crossed Yinping and invaded Shu.

The System issued one objective: perform the emperor’s actual duties.

He couldn’t focus only on war, rely solely on killing, or treat the people like numbers. Court audiences, sacrifices, granaries, military spending, evaluations of local officials, palace meals: slack off in any area and his score would drop!

After returning to the modern world, he used the manuals on governance and practical materials he had brought back from the dungeon to take over a historic district on the verge of bankruptcy and launch “A Day in the Life of an Emperor.”

Visitors went in shouting that they wanted to be emperors, but came out with only one thing to say:

“In my next life, I’ll just be an ordinary person!”