I Survived After Becoming an Absurd Emperor

Programmer Zhu Houzhao dies suddenly from overwork, only to wake up as the Zhengde Emperor, Zhu Houzhao. When he opens the history books, he discovers that this foolish emperor drowned and died without an heir. His birth mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, is secretly poisoning the imperial heir, the Eight Tigers, including Liu Jin, each have their own schemes, and the cabinet is full of talk about sages and virtue. There isn't a single person in the court he can trust. But he has read every official and unofficial history written by later generations, and remembers every undercurrent and trap in the Ming Dynasty. If the Empress Dowager wants power, the eunuchs want influence, and the civil officials want a good name, then he'll play the part of a foolish emperor who cares only for pleasure. First he'll stay alive, then he'll personally change every deadly plot hidden between the lines of history, one by one.