The Tyrant Is Being Absurd Again

[Unconventional Sickly Tyrant × Stoic, Cold-Tongued Escort General]

Transmigrate into a book, bind to a System, build up the country, then fake your death and reveal your secret identity, hehehe~

Yuan Chiqing was transmigrated into a book after being diagnosed with a terminal illness that no medicine could cure.

Bad news: He had become a tyrant: cruel, debauched, sickly, and on the verge of being overthrown at any moment.

Good news: He had gained a golden finger, the "Unharmed Infrastructure Development" System. As long as he maintained his tyrant persona and completed his missions, he could return to the modern world.

Yuan Chiqing's eyes lit up. Maintain a tyrant persona? Easy!

By day, he activated "Unharmed Mode" and turned to his personal eunuch. "I'll cut you!"

The chief eunuch dropped to his knees and caught the blade in both hands.

To his most trusted minister: "I'll throw this!"

The elderly Right Chancellor caught the memorial flying toward him in both hands.

To the male lead, Pei Yan: "I'll stab you!"

Pei Yan easily blocked him with one hand. Coldness +1.

Yuan Chiqing looked at the points collected by the System. Tyrannical image: [get!]

At night in the harem, Yuan Chiqing summoned two consorts in a row and spent hours "battling" the Noble Consort and Consort De.

After a game of poker, the two became palace besties.

He brought out The Poker Handbook for Consort Xian,

revealing the secrets of card tricks and making her the most popular consort in the palace.

He brought out The Health and Fitness Manual for Consort Shu,

helping her maintain her health and making the consort, who loved swords and spears, into a wellness enthusiast.

The consorts vied to "attend him in bed."

Yuan Chiqing watched his points climb. Debauched image: [get!]

At last came the big infrastructure projects. Yuan Chiqing simply lay down on the imperial bed and put his main body on autopilot,

while the clones he created happily traveled around the country.

A severe drought was coming, and the people were suffering terribly.

Yuan Chiqing: "Don't worry, come forth, engineers and inventors!"

The earth was parched, crops withered, and the number of starving refugees soared.

Yuan Chiqing: "Don't worry, come forth, agricultural experts!"

Talented people were overlooked, and knowledge and experience had no chance to be passed on.

Yuan Chiqing: "Don't worry, come forth, education experts!"

The precarious state of Yun had turned itself around and was thriving.

Sickly, incompetent, and good at infrastructure: [all get!]

Except that a neighboring state was eager to invade, so Yuan Chiqing summoned a military expert, only for Pei Yan to appear.

Under Pei Yan's suspicious gaze,

Yuan Chiqing clutched his secret identity tight. He was sweating buckets.

[Bonus Scene]

Yuan Chiqing finally made his escape.

But the martial world was clearly no easy place to get by. Short on cash, Yuan Chiqing had no choice but to take the number-one job on the bounty board.

He couldn't help it. The reward was just too good.

Later, his patron held him tightly in his arms.

Yuan Chiqing bristled. "Sir, you've got the wrong person!"

Pei Yan's eyes were bloodshot. "After all these years, I would recognize Your Majesty's sword-wielding figure even if it were reduced to ashes."

The wildly absurd ending was that he ended up giving himself away.

[Reader's Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, both pure, a universally adored protagonist × a wildly jealous lover.

2. The protagonist is hilariously oblivious.

3. His thought process is so abstract that it's hard to get on the same wavelength.

4. Infrastructure development through talent recruitment.

5. The "catching a blade barehanded" idea was inspired by the Nezha episode of 100,000 Bad Jokes; everything else is original.

(Content warning: Before faking his death, the couple isn't glued to each other day and night. Whatever the top wants to do, the bottom silently supports him...)

Theme: A hero need not be famous throughout the martial world. He can also quietly do good in the world.