I Told You to Be a Dandy, So Why Are You Scheming to Take Over the World?

He transmigrates to the Great Li Dynasty and becomes the legitimate grandson of a duke. He should have had a life of fine clothes, rich food, and lifelong privilege.

Instead, Li Xuanzhen gets a disastrous start: framed by a villain, he is already halfway through the gates of hell!

At death's door, the playboy everyone once mocked suddenly awakens and transforms into a master of deadly schemes.

With peerless cunning, he breaks through a desperate situation and saves the Duke's household from ruin;

With a few strokes of his brush, his poetry astounds the world, and his writing reverberates through the Great Li court.

Factional strife rages, and the court is rotten to the core.

He stirs up the storm, sweeps away the treacherous officials, and devotes himself to helping the Eldest Princess ascend the throne.

Just the words "The Living Yama is here" are enough to scare a million soldiers into retreat!

He drives back the barbarians in the north, pacifies the four seas, restores the lands of the Nine Provinces, and ushers in a golden age when all nations come to pay homage.

Once his work is done, Li Xuanzhen, who holds the great merit of having backed the emperor's rise, only wants to lie flat and return to his playboy ways.

Unexpectedly, in the dead of night, a palace carriage arrives with a summons. The empress dismisses every attendant, leaving him alone with her deep inside the palace.

Li Xuanzhen is stunned...

Your Majesty! Is this really how you test a meritorious official?