The Lazy Slacker Becomes an Emperor for the Ages

The title and blurb have been revised, but the central premise remains the same. Xie Weishuang transmigrates into the body of a puppet emperor. His imperial authority has been usurped by powerful clans. In this dynasty, ministers hold the reins of power, and emperors die faster than chives can be harvested. Xie Weishuang's older brother, the previous emperor, was just forced to his death. With no one else in the royal family, the sickly Xie Weishuang is dragged out and made the new emperor. What can he do? Give up and coast! He has to choose between abdicating sooner rather than later or dying as soon as possible. Xie Weishuang chooses to abdicate peacefully. He just has to play the part of a useless little emperor. So on his first day as a useless emperor, Xie Weishuang plays cards. He plays cards again on the second day, and on the third. On the fourth day, his mahjong set is confiscated because he has been playing nonstop... By the fiftieth day, he is begging the artisans to make him an automatic mahjong table so he can shuffle faster. But as he keeps playing, his card room turns into a spy-training base. His outlandish inventions improve farming tools and weapons. The imperial hunting grounds become a military training ground. Everyone becomes fiercely loyal to him, and even the snacks he casually whips up take the capital by storm. What's more, the powerful minister Shi Fuxuan has started looking at him in a rather strange way... Help! Why does everyone want to recognize him as a wise ruler? But no matter how plainly or subtly Xie Weishuang hints at it, Shi Fuxuan remains unmoved by the idea of abdication. Xie Weishuang has another revelation: Does he really have to die? Three days later, a great fire breaks out at Weiyang Palace in the middle of the night. The ailing emperor fails to escape his fate, and his body is never found in the flames. Shi Fuxuan, Grand Marshal and Grand General with power over the entire court, goes white-haired overnight, and the throne remains vacant for three whole years. A living person must be seen alive, and a dead person must be seen dead. He refuses to believe that Xie Weishuang is gone. The setting sun stains the sky blood-red. Shi Fuxuan, clad in armor, steps over corpses and enters the emperor's bedchamber. He kneels on the jade tiles and says softly to the emperor on the sickbed, "The criminals have all been executed. Your Majesty, please come with me." A pale hand reaches out from the bed curtains. Shi Fuxuan looks up. The emperor's long hair cascades like a waterfall, his clothes in disarray. Just one glance makes Shi Fuxuan's heart stir. [Extra Scene] Long afterward, the emperor's attendant looks at Xie Weishuang, who is living the life of a contented hermit, and says, "Your Majesty, please go back. The general and all the civil and military officials are waiting for you." Xie Weishuang says, "I understand all that. But how did Shi Fuxuan persuade the court to go on without an emperor?" The head eunuch is almost in tears. "Because Your Majesty is the people's choice, of course!" Coming soon: After the Vicious Beauty Humiliates the Dragon-Blooded Protagonist Blurb: As the young lord of a cultivation family's household, Lu Yunyan is vicious, fickle, and cruel. One day, he captures a Foundation Establishment nobody who tried to seduce his fiancée. Just as he is about to destroy the man's spiritual roots and dantian, he suddenly gets spoiled the original novel's plot. The nobody he captured is the child of Heaven, a descendant of the divine clan, a man blessed with great fortune and born with a natural Daoist body. He is known throughout the martial world as the Dragon-Blooded Protagonist. Lu Yunyan, meanwhile, is a vicious cannon-fodder character who destroys the man's spiritual roots and dantian, then dies horribly as his entire family is slaughtered! Looking down at the child of Heaven whose cheek he is pinning beneath his foot, Lu Yunyan stomps down hard without a moment's hesitation. He cruelly grinds his toes over the man's pale, thin lips. Then he suddenly decides not to destroy the man's spiritual roots after all. He has other ways to humiliate him. Lu Yunyan hooks a finger under Shi Mingxun's chin. Shi Mingxun looks up at the beautiful young man, whose loose, plain robes cannot conceal the suggestive marks blooming across his body like rouge. He hears the young man say with unmistakable malice, "From now on, you'll be my foot-washing slave." Shi Mingxun was born into poverty and used ruthless methods to claw his way into the cultivation world, step by step. But a beautiful, cruel youth pins him beneath his feet, tossing him high into the air only to slam him back down. From that moment on, desire and obsession take root. He thinks that once he gains supreme power, he will be able to protect the youth from everyone else's hungry eyes. But then he sees the youth use spiritual fire to burn down the entire Lu family, himself included. In the seventy-second year of Tianchu, Shi Mingxun loses his wife, his master... Then, following the Lu family genealogy the youth made him memorize, he wipes out every last descendant of the Lu clan in the cultivation world. Theme: Strive to stay alive