My Father Is a Corrupt Official—So It’s Reasonable for Me to Be a Brat

[Transmigration · Imperial Examinations · Court Politics · No Cheat Ability]

The short drama adaptation is already online, titled: Noble Brat Wields the Brush to Protect the Empire (Season 1).

After transmigrating into the Great Zhou, Gu Chang’an becomes the son of a notorious treacherous minister hated by all.

His father, Gu Mingyuan, holds immense power at court, purges the bureaucracy, and suppresses the scholar-official class, making him a national traitor in the eyes of all readers.

And he himself is the capital’s most infamous wastrel.

Cockfights and horse races, frequenting pleasure quarters—he’s the useless playboy everyone calls a prodigal son.

Gu Chang’an, who transmigrated here, originally wanted to stay away from court politics and live as a carefree wealthy idler.

Until that day.

He personally witnessed the deputy commander of the Northern Army and his entire family be executed.

At the execution ground, that general who had once guarded the northern frontier pointed at the man on the execution platform and cursed:

“Gu Mingyuan, you treacherous minister!”

And the man deciding the fate of countless lives.

Was his father.

At that moment, Gu Chang’an realized for the first time:

If the Gu family’s great tree fell, then he, a young master who only knew how to enjoy himself, would be the first to be liquidated.

So.

The capital lost one wastrel.

The Great Zhou gained one scholar.

From the county exam’s top scorer to the steps before the Hall of Supreme Harmony,

Gu Chang’an climbed step by step to the peak of the imperial examinations, and step by step drew closer to the father reviled by all under heaven.

Many years later,

when the scholars of the realm once again pointed at him and cursed:

“Traitorous minister!”

Gu Chang’an only smiled.

Because only at this moment did he finally understand the choice his father had made back then.

“Someone has to go to hell in this world.”