Starting Out as a Fake County Magistrate

Name: Starting Out as a Fake County Magistrate
Author: A Sweet Beet

从冒名顶替县令开始

by A Sweet Beet (一颗甜菜呀)

Status: Completed
Length: 620k Words
Genre: Xianxia
Subgenre: Fantasy Cultivation
Updated: 5y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Fang Xiubai woke up in the body of a bandit.

He thought he would get to drink his fill, eat his fill, and maybe even kidnap a beautiful young lady from a prominent family to be his stronghold wife.

But...

This was a world where an unlucky person could run into six man-eating monsters in the space of five steps.

Ahead lay dense mountain forests where blood corpses could appear at any moment.

In his hands was an appointment letter for county magistrate, picked up by the original bandit owner of this body.

Should he lie down and die, or... lie down and die?

Fang Xiubai decisively chose not to die. He would impersonate the appointed magistrate.

On the way, he caught a mountain ghost to guide him.

In the county seat, he exterminated a vengeful spirit in red, a headless boy, and an old woman who sold blood-filled buns...

Before long, his reputation was soaring.

One day, Fang Xiubai was reclining in a lounge chair, enjoying a young maid feeding him by hand,

when a servant hurried over, delighted. “My lord, your wife from the capital has arrived. She's just reached the county office.”

Thud!

Fang Xiubai toppled backward onto the ground!

Since when did he have a wife?

Right, right. He was an impostor.

This was the real magistrate's wife.

Fang Xiubai clutched his official hat tightly... Yes, the hat mustn't fall off, and neither could his secret identity.

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With such an impressive identity, it's ridiculous that ordinary people can casually call him a menace.
40 likes5y ago
How could someone of status be openly insulted and harmed like this? This poisoning caught me completely off guard!
17 likes5y ago
The emperor's grandson committed several offenses in the capital that warranted the execution of his entire family, yet nothing came of it. And then he was killed on the street by a mere minor character using a simple spell?! The prince's legitimate son has no guards, no trump cards? And he's the absolute favorite legitimate son... And how can some country bumpkin from a small county town casually insult the emperor's grandson? Did the author graduate from kindergarten?
16 likes5y ago
The county magistrates of the imperial court are not cabbages; seven have died in succession and no one has come to investigate. Is the imperial court doomed?
14 likes5y ago
Tsk tsk, now I understand why so few people read this book. The protagonist is really useless. 🤫🤫🤫
12 likes5y ago
The subject matter is good; however, the comedic writing style doesn't fit the overall mood of the book.
11 likes5y ago
Why all this nonsense? There's way too much internal monologue! Why not just write it as a novel about inner monologues?
8 likes5y ago
The fact that they survived the initial minor poisoning, were able to let others see their memories, and were even allowed to escape is absurd. If the subsequent secrets are revealed to others, then there's no point in watching.
8 likes5y ago
The writing is too disjointed, making it difficult to read.
4 likes5y ago
It was confusing from the start. The four constables' actions seemed reasonable to me, but then the protagonist wanted to kill them. Did the author lose their intelligence? If you could produce two talismans, why would they fight each other? Why would they trust your talismans? Couldn't they just kill you and get more talismans? Extremely poisonous.
3 likes5y ago