Reborn as a traitor to the Han, notorious and reviled for all eternity... What should Wang Xiaoqun do? After thinking it over from every angle, he decided to keep his head down and behave.
Transported to an age on the brink of chaos, so mired in problems that it was beyond saving... What should Wang Xiaoqun do? After considering it carefully, he decided to lie low.
Dear readers, don't laugh at him for lacking lofty ambitions to claim the throne and rule the world, or the chivalrous heart to save the people from danger. To put it plainly, Wang Xiaoqun is just an ordinary man who works from ten in the morning until nine at night: "I've drifted in the capital for so long. Ten years have passed, and I've achieved nothing, with no chance to see my teachers or friends." He's spent ten years as a drifter in Beijing, struggling every day just to find somewhere to put down roots. His greatest dream in life is to scrape together a down payment as soon as possible and become a slave to his mortgage. What makes him think he can turn the tide when all is lost?! And what makes him think he can prop up a collapsing empire?!
Besides, history already had a man named Liu Xiu, who ended the chaos of the Xin dynasty and founded the Eastern Han, ushering in an era of "Guangwu Restoration." The hero destined to restore the realm was already in place. Surely a tragic cannon-fodder character like him didn't have to rush in and become someone else's stepping stone?
He asks for no glorious name in the history books, only to survive the chaos.
However, as the renowned American author John Toland wrote, "Politics committed itself to Hitler, not Hitler to politics." The same applies to Wang Mang.
The times make the hero. That's all there is to it.
It's beautifully written in big letters (??ω??)??