After ten years of hard study, Le Jiushou finally passed the examinations and made it to the capital.
To his surprise, at the Qionglin Banquet, an examiner with a full head of white hair suddenly hugged him and burst into tears.
Could it be that he was a once-in-a-generation talent who could govern the world, and his examiner favored him especially?
Excited, Le Jiushou went to visit, only to discover that he was the real young master, long lost to the Chief Councillor's family.
It took him eighteen years, after half a lifetime of studying himself ragged, to realize he had transmigrated into a harem novel.
And he wasn't the protagonist!
The role he'd been given was that of a villainous antagonist who abused the tyrant's favor to throw his weight around, stir up trouble at court, wield immense power, and commit every kind of evil. He was supposed to oppose the protagonist and fight over love every day, before committing a grave offense and being forced into exile...
This is outrageous! Aren't I a genius? What kind of ancient, clichéd plot is this? Can I just throw away the script and quit?
Le Jiushou declined the Chief Councillor's offer and chose the easiest way to escape the plot.
No romance. Just an unfeeling employee!
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The Fifth Prince, Xiao Xingmian, had won countless military honors and was cold and ruthless. He rose at three in the morning and went to bed at five, taking famous rulers throughout history as his models. He often wondered why his subordinates couldn't match his level of attention to detail and why their work efficiency was so far from optimal.
Until one day, he collapsed from overwork. When he woke up, his cleverest and most promising subordinate was performing CPR on him.
The subordinate had finished pressing on the pectoral muscles he'd worked so hard to build and was now giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Xiao Xingmian tried to keep his breathing steady.
