Impersonating to Enter Officialdom, I Pounded My Way to Power in Ming

Lin Chuan transmigrates to the late Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty. By chance, he encounters bandits who accidentally kill an official on his way to take office, so he impersonates him and slips into the bureaucracy.

He originally only wanted to cling to a stable government post and coast until retirement, but who could have imagined that the Ming court was even more cutthroat than the workplace? If you don’t fight or compete, you’ll be trampled to death.

To survive, he can only go all out all the way:

solve strange cases, rack up achievements, stabilize the local area, secure the people’s livelihood, suppress his colleagues, and resist foreign enemies.

Anyone who blocks his path, he steps on.

Anyone who schemes against him, he sends away in return.

He doesn’t like fighting for things, but no one fights better than he does.

He doesn’t like taking sides, yet he always stands on the winner’s side.

From county yamen all the way into the imperial court.

From a ninth-rank nobody to an adopted king with power over the world.

By the time Lin Chuan comes to his senses, the Ming dynasty has unknowingly changed emperors several times, and he has only grown more and more firmly seated.

In this life, he started as a fake official,

but lived into the one person no one dared to provoke.