Your Majesty, I Really Am a Treacherous Minister!

Shen Zhao transmigrates to the Dayan Dynasty and binds himself to a Great Traitor System. If he can drive the nation's fortune from one million to zero and bring the dynasty to ruin, he'll be able to return to the modern world with 100 billion.

As the current right chancellor, he embarks on a mad campaign of self-destruction:

He embezzles funds for river dikes and lines his own pockets, making wealthy merchants in Jiangnan pay for it all. Along the way, he invents cement and builds a flood-control dam that will last a hundred years.

He seizes fertile land, then turns around and develops high-yield crops, transforming famine years full of starving corpses into years of plenty.

He reforms the imperial examinations, adding modern test-oriented education. The result is that poor families rise to prominence, the aristocratic clans lose their monopoly, and talent is recruited from every walk of life.

At every month's end, the nation's fortune doesn't fall. It rises instead, once surging by a full three hundred thousand.

Shen Zhao curses: “Is this lousy System broken?!”

Worse still, the Empress's gaze grows stranger by the day, as if she wants to marry him and make him her consort!

He has to pretend to be a loyal minister to keep his head, while racking his brains to bring down the Dayan Dynasty.

Amid the officials' tears of gratitude, the nation's fortune keeps climbing.

System: “Friendly reminder: please keep up the good work, Host, and reach the goal of reducing the nation's fortune to zero as soon as possible.”

Shen Zhao fumes: “Your Majesty, I really am a traitor!!!”