Li Yun, a modern-day military king, transmigrated into the most miserable crown prince in history. The Eastern Palace had been reduced to a latrine, and the entire court was betting on when he would drop dead.
After awakening his powers, he beheaded the Minister of Revenue in front of the entire court, then held up his bloodstained robe and smiled. "Which other loyal subject would like to try out my new inkstone?"
He kicked open the gates of the prince's mansion and pulled his soon-to-be sister-in-law into his arms. "Third Brother, I've already had your bride!"
He slammed a method for refining salt and wine onto the imperial desk. "Father, this longevity wine has your favorite consort's ashes mixed into it."
When the armies of seven kingdoms marched on the border, he burned the envoys' corpses and forged them into a sword case. "Would eight hundred thousand heads be enough to fill my monument of skulls?"
The horrified court discovered that every time this madman got crazier, the treasury grew by thirty percent. Every time he killed someone, the enemy retreated a hundred miles from the border!
A mad emperor arrived amid blood and fire, followed by a nation-founding empress who commanded the grand strategy, a Western Regions enchantress wielding cannons, and... an imperial jade seal cast from the skulls of treacherous ministers.
"What good are the polished words of history? I am the law of this age of chaos!"