The Survival Guide of the First Meritorious Official of Lingyan Pavilion

In the first year of Yonghui, Changsun Wuji awoke. He was still the foremost meritorious official of the Lingyan Pavilion and the regent chief minister. But he also remembered how the history books said it would end: in the fourth year of Xianqing, he would be framed for treason, exiled to Qianzhou, and hanged himself. The military held a grudge, Empress Wu bore him a grudge, and the emperor coveted his power. Three paths to death, each one of them a road he had paved himself. Worse, he had several history books in his mind that contradicted one another. Some said his advice to proceed cautiously was an act of loyalty; others said that account had been rewritten. Memories of the future weren't a cheat, but leads that still needed to be verified. The Fang Yiai case, the former residents of Ganye Temple, old records from Liaodong, and the upheaval over appointing an empress. He would turn every dead end into a move that kept the game alive. In this life, the foremost meritorious official of the Lingyan Pavilion would not die as someone else's pawn. As for the daughter of a military family who pulled him out of the military's deadly trap... He would settle that score after changing his fate.