Time Xi, a doctoral student worked to the bone, stayed up all night running experiments and died suddenly. He was bound to a Pure Minister cultivation System and transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty to complete its missions.
A so-called Pure Minister is loyal to the ruler and country, and does not form cliques for personal gain.
But... is this really a proper system? What kind of system has Favorable Minister Points and Treacherous Minister Points?!
Time Xi stared at the Favorable Minister Points on his status screen, which were skyrocketing far above the rest, and fell into deep thought.
System: What's our motto!!!
Time Xi: Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people...
System: Wrong! Our motto is!
System: [garbled text]
Time Xi: Stop talking... You're acting suspicious.
As a top-two university's biggest academic overachiever and a future academician, Time Xi had planned to make his mark and stride down the broad road of a classic male protagonist.
He had imagined arguing with scholars at the Hanlin Academy, directing the course of the nation in the Golden Throne Hall, and earning a reputation as a Pure Minister in the history books...
Instead, he saw with his own eyes:
Someone secretly pocketed the jade hairpin he dropped while drunk. Someone traveled a thousand miles beneath the moon to bring him an exotic flower he'd mentioned in passing. Even the famously ascetic chancellor begged the Imperial Astronomical Bureau to use their birth dates to calculate his and Time Xi's compatibility over and over again.
"Let me stop you there... I'm only going to be a Pure Minister."
"Oh, perfect. You want to be loyal to the ruler and country, and I am your ruler and your country."
Vermilion official robes were bound to the desk with chains of dark iron. With the scent of dragon's incense curling around him, Time Xi was forced to tilt his head back, finally remembering the System's last warning: Being a Pure Minister is risky. Choose carefully.
According to the history books:
In the first year of Jinghe, Chancellor Time debated the scholars, arguing his case and defeating them all. Later, he met privately with the emperor. When he left, his steps were unsteady and his lips a vivid red.
#So this is what it means to debate the scholars#
#System, get out here and explain to the emperor what a Pure Minister is#
#I'm already barely hanging on, and you're still doing this to me? Have you no heart?#
A gloomy, dangerously obsessive emperor who cries louder than the rain falls, seems fierce but is surprisingly easy to placate x a sickly Imperial Preceptor who looks clever while barely holding on, is genuinely clever, excels at training dogs, and has self-destructive tendencies
By the way:
The court intrigue is real, and the emperor and Imperial Preceptor are mutually in love. Everyone else has one-sided feelings.
Theme: Face your fears, then overcome them.
