I Pretended to Be a Dandy, So How Did I Become a Famous Chancellor?

(Tang Dynasty + Wu Zhou) (She disguises herself as a man in the early chapters, then her identity is exposed later)

Also known as From the Start, I Killed the Empress’s Nephew; A Murderer’s Plan to Pass as a Spoiled Young Master; The Years I Betrayed My Colleagues in Chang’an and Luoyang; After Committing Murder, I Sold Myself to the Empress as a Loyal Minister

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What do you do when you transmigrate and become a murderer right from the start?

No problem. Just put on the dead person’s identity like a costume and walk away.

But what if the dead person’s identity is more complicated than you thought?

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In the first year of Longshuo, auspicious omens appeared everywhere.

Guo Shengyun, a son of the Guo clan of Taiyuan who suffered from a hidden ailment, was summoned to the capital by imperial decree.

But only a few people knew that this Guo Shengyun was no longer the original person.

The one who had taken his place was a younger female cousin from the same clan.

She had plunged straight into the tiger’s den of the capital, into a world of wealth and high society.

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That year,

“Guo Shengyun’s” twenty-two-year-old cousin, Guo Daifeng, was a brilliant scholar and had earned Emperor Li Zhi’s favor. He worked at the Hongwen Academy.

One day, he would command armies and lead campaigns east and west.

Her nineteen-year-old cousin, Helan Minzhi, was dazzlingly handsome and silver-tongued, adored by both the Empress and Lady Rongguo.

Neither of them had yet reached the day when their favor would end and they would be exiled to their deaths.

She alone was a useless impostor, who had done nothing but eat, drink, and indulge herself since arriving in the capital, hoping only to enjoy life to the fullest before she died.

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Huh? And people still suspect her identity?

Well, sorry about that.

She wasn’t the sort to sit around waiting for death, either.

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Look.

She had the worst possible start.

But she had arrived in the best of times.

The charge of murder and impersonation wasn’t a blade poised to fall on her neck. It was a ladder she could climb to attach herself to the future empress and rise to great heights.

From then on, she strolled through life with a hawk on her left arm and a hound on her right, living freely and flamboyantly, conning and swindling her way through court and stirring up chaos.

But behind the scenes, she was secretly laying a vast web to bring about new policies and strike at the corruption eating away at the empire!

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She was Chang’an’s number one spoiled young master.

And she would also become the future... greatest chancellor of Wu Zhou.

Theme: Even in the direst situation, there is a way out.