In the 40th year of the Jiajing reign, at the Xishi execution ground, just as the executioner's blade fell...
A top investment banker transmigrates into Yan Shifan, history's infamous traitor.
He has four years before he is sentenced to death by dismemberment, as happened in history.
A one-eyed genius and a modern financial mind, fused into one. From the start, he's in a deadly bind.
Ahead lies the unfathomable art of rule practiced by the Jiajing Emperor;
behind him, the upright official Xu Jie sharpens his blade and closes in step by step;
in court, every member of the Yan faction has their own agenda;
and the treasury is so empty even the rats think it's poor.
Other people transmigrate to cultivate immortality, vie for supremacy, and get a golden finger.
He transmigrates and immediately has to figure out how to keep his head on his shoulders.
No whitewashing, no saintly heroics, no rebellion.
So what if he's a treacherous official? Even a treacherous official can prolong the Ming Dynasty's life.
Corrupt officials save the realm; upright ones ruin it.
From Vice Minister of Works to the most powerful man across the two capitals and thirteen provinces,
this time, the young lord of the Yan clan will defy fate and refuse to be dismembered!
