I Just Want to Slacken Off, but My Imperial Consort Mother Wants to Be Empress Dowager

Chu Wujiu transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty and becomes the ninth prince, with no powerful connections.

He has eight older brothers above him, all fighting tooth and nail for the throne, and a suspicious, bloodthirsty, merciless father.

Knowing that the succession struggle is a meat grinder, he promptly binds himself to the "Lazybones System" and decides to play dumb and act like a useless prince, spending every day bird-watching and listening to music, never going anywhere near power.

But he never imagined that his gentle mother consort, who wouldn't even step on an ant in the harem without reciting Buddhist scriptures for ages, was actually the mastermind behind the greatest underground network in the world!

Even more absurdly, his mother consort thinks the emperor is too dangerous and is secretly plotting a rebellion, planning to conquer the realm and give it to her son as a toy.

And so, everything goes completely off the rails.

While Chu Wujiu listens to music in a brothel, peerless swordsmen under his mother consort's command casually assassinate all his political rivals.

Chu Wujiu casually bluffs to a down-and-out scholar, who imagines an unparalleled master plan and promptly brings down the crown prince.

The entire court is stunned. "The ninth prince has hidden his true abilities. He's a peerless schemer!"

His eight older brothers are in despair. "The ninth has everything planned down to the last detail. We're no match for him!"

Looking at the imperial robe they've forced onto him, Chu Wujiu is close to tears. "Mother, I really just want to be a lazybones!"