The Embroidered Guard: From Prison Warden to Power Behind the Throne

"Kill an official, and grow stronger!"

Shen Yu is the lowest-ranking officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, powerless and at the mercy of everyone around him, like an ant underfoot.

Caught up in a major salt and iron case, he is framed by his superior and thrown into the Imperial Prison. After enduring every kind of torture, he is only waiting to be beaten into a confession and have his entire family executed.

On the brink of death, he awakens the power of "Official Fiends": whenever a court official dies, their death becomes fuel for Shen Yu to grow stronger!

From then on, he becomes a shadow over the court, steadily climbing through the whirlpool of political intrigue:

The Two Huai salt license case leaves heads rolling in droves!

The plan to replace rice paddies with mulberry fields sends the court into an uproar!

The factional struggle over the imperial heir shakes the realm to its foundations!

But the backlash of the Official Fiends grows ever worse...

"Either slaughter every high-ranking official in the court, or become a puppet of the Heart Fiend!"

In this dog-eat-dog world, all he wants is to keep his life in his own hands!