[Subverting Expectations + Historical + Lighthearted + Invincible Protagonist]
After transmigrating into Ji Xia, a “prince deserter” cursed by the entire Great Zhou, he had only one thought: to die with dignity.
It was all laid out in The Record of Martyrdom: those who died in service to the kingdom would be recorded. Once his name was in the book, he could go home. His mother was waiting there, and he only had thirty-eight thousand left to pay off on the money he’d borrowed.
So he volunteered to carry a surrender letter into the enemy camp, stood on the most precarious section of a crumbling wall to wait for arrows, and claimed he had “forged an imperial edict” when he was accused of “altering a state document,” begging them to execute him quickly. He had calculated his death to the last detail and followed his plan to perfection.
Unfortunately, the court officials saw things differently. “His Highness took all the blame upon himself, so not one of his attendants was implicated.” “With a prince like this, Great Zhou cannot be conquered.”
The more he wanted to die, the more they hailed him as a hero. The more he threw himself at the blade, the higher he rose.
After a long silence, The Record of Martyrdom passed its verdict: This death does not qualify for entry.
