My Father Is the Chief Councillor, So What's Wrong with Me Slacking Off?

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In the Great Jing dynasty's capital, Lu Jing, Lu Zha the only son of Grand Secretary Lu Chongshan, is nineteen, with no degree and no job. Everyone in the capital considers him useless. He sleeps until noon every day, gambles and drinks, and is proudly content to do nothing.

After a night of heavy drinking, he takes a blow to the back of his head. An old wooden token carved with the character “Chen” is in his arms, and someone has raided the cockfighting ring in the western part of the city. The whole city says he did it. He can't even remember what he did last night.

From the day he is ordered to enroll in the Imperial Academy, this good-for-nothing climbs his way up the official ranks, one step at a time. He has dredged the stinking ditch south of the city, repaired the collapsed bridge in the western market, and solved cases no one else could. Little by little, he sees that the rot in this world lies not with any one corrupt official, but with the entire system of rules.

The whole court still thinks he is the same spoiled heir. By the time they realize otherwise, he is already standing closer than anyone else to that seat.