How Can I Bow and Serve a Powerful Minister?

Xie Chengze transmigrates into a novel about powerful officials, becoming the vicious Second Prince who murders his siblings, disregards human life, and ultimately dies with a sword through his heart at the hands of the powerful official Shen Yuan. To avoid that fatal ending, Xie Chengze decides to keep his head down and stay out of the succession struggle. When it comes to court affairs, all he ever says is, “No idea, ask the Crown Prince!” “No idea, ask Shen Yuan!” “No idea, ask the First Prince!” But somehow, Shen Yuan and the princes look at him with increasingly dangerous eyes, dangerous in every sense of the word. After Shen Yuan runs Xie Chengze through with his sword, he opens his eyes and returns to ten years earlier. In his previous life, the Second Prince embezzled, broke the law, and brought disaster upon the nation, throwing the court into chaos for nearly ten years. This time, Shen Yuan decides to root out the prince’s power as early as possible and restore peace to the realm. Yet the man who was once so wicked now cares deeply for the people, opening up a land of plenty with his bare hands and ushering in an age of peace and prosperity. He is gentle in a thousand ways, yet only in front of Shen Yuan does he refuse to bow his head or bend his back.