What's it like to transmigrate into the body of an emperor?
Shen Zhaolin says: Thanks for asking. I just ascended the throne, and the entire court is full of treacherous officials. The treasury is empty, the borders are under attack, and the three neighboring kingdoms are all waiting to carve us up.
The good news: he binds himself to a Nation-Ending System.
If he can make the Great Sheng fall within ninety days, he can return to the modern world with a billion in prize money.
The bad news: these treacherous officials aren't quite right.
He abolishes business taxes, hoping to empty the treasury, but merchants flock in droves, and treasury revenues soar instead.
He promotes corrupt officials, hoping to ruin the government, but they clean up the entire court just to protect their own coffers.
He cuts military spending, hoping to provoke a rebellion among the frontier troops, but the general returns with an army of 300,000 to ask him to perform the Fengshan sacrifice.
Shen Zhaolin finally breaks down.
"I want the nation to fall! I really do want it to fall!"
The entire court is moved to tears.
"Your Majesty has sullied your sacred reputation just to test our loyalty!"
"Such magnanimity has never been seen in all of history!"
"We are willing to give our lives for Your Majesty!"
Shen Zhaolin stares at the System panel, watching the nation's downfall progress steadily decline, and falls into deep thought.
Wait.
Can't you treacherous officials show a little professional integrity?
