A Tang Dynasty Wage Slave's Daydream

This idea came to me while I was going crazy with work. I’ll polish the blurb another day.

Li Qian closed his eyes and died. He opened them and was alive again. But the two knives flashing toward him made it clear that he was about to die again.

Pay attention: he was supposed to die, but hadn’t yet. The soldiers brought him before Li Erfeng, who was still building his power.

At that moment, Erfeng was a dashing young man in fine clothes, riding a horse with a spirited air. He asked with interest, “Will you submit or not?”

Li Qian, having just taken in the memories of this body, silently looked at his own great ancestor and blinked.

Tears fell.

First one at a time, then faster and faster. Li Erfeng and his men were stunned into silence. Before anyone else could ask what was going on, Li Qian tearfully and passionately told them his story.

He talked about how his boss was a terrible person, how his boss made things difficult for him, how he’d been made to take the blame, how people acted one way to his face and another behind his back, and how he’d trusted the wrong people.

His vivid emotions and immersive acting moved everyone who heard him to tears.

Li Erfeng got off his horse in tears and helped him up. “How could such a thing happen? If you help me, I swear I’ll never let you down!”

Li Qian was a miserable modern-day office worker who gave everything for his company until the day he died. Literally.

After dying suddenly at his desk, he inexplicably opened his eyes in the body of another office worker with the same name. To stay alive, and to pursue his ideals, Li Qian immediately put on a show as a hapless, heartbroken strategist betrayed by his lord.

Everyone knows how magnanimous Li Shimin was, and how he treated his ministers. He was a truly top-tier boss.

After joining Li Shimin, Li Qian finally learned how important it was to have a good boss. This was what it meant to die for someone who understood you! From now on, you’re my whole world. Anyone who wants to hurt you will have to get through me first!

After Li Erfeng became emperor, whenever he came up with a questionable idea, our Qian would eagerly take the blame for him. Eventually, Li Qian did something huge himself, but the ministers were so used to pinning everything on Li Erfeng that they blamed him out of habit and gossiped about him behind his back.

Li Erfeng shouted in outrage, “It wasn’t me!”

An office worker getting his boss to take the blame for him, heh.

The ruler and his minister trust one another completely. Together, they build the Tang Dynasty. They may not be brothers, but they’re closer than brothers.

Theme: Keep hope in your heart. Tomorrow will be better