After Being Cheated on and Dumped, I Use the Refund on the Betrothal Gifts to Win Over the County Magistrate

Three days before the wedding, Gu Chengning caught his fiancee Li Yan in bed with her old flame at a hotel.

He broke off the engagement, but all she returned were the five pieces of jewelry. The 388,000 yuan betrothal gift had already been used by Li Yan's parents to make a down payment on a house for their son.

Gu Chengning became a laughingstock and spent his days drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

One night, he fell into a pond while drunk and died.

But he did not die. Instead, he transmigrated to the Great Liang Dynasty, a dynasty that never existed in history.

The emperor was selling official posts to the highest bidder, and Gu Chengning still had the five pieces of jewelry Li Yan's family had returned.

Just then, he activated the Shop Quest System. The System issued quests, and completing them earned him points he could exchange for rewards.

His first quest was to obtain the position of county magistrate.

Gu Chengning used the five pieces of jewelry to buy the position of magistrate of Changle County in Guazhou...