Exiled to Guard Tombs: The Empress Forces Me to Be Her Consort

A forty-year-old office worker dies and awakens as Ye Feiyu, the scorned bastard son of a marquis in the Eastern Tang Empire. Banished at twelve to guard ancestral tombs on desolate Huitian Ridge—a punishment meant to break him—he instead seizes his chance. For thirteen years in solitude, he secretly masters martial arts, engineers gunpowder weapons using modern knowledge, and transforms from a bullied weakling into a formidable force. But when the ruthless Empress discovers his hidden power, she demands he become her consort. Now the abandoned son must navigate deadly court intrigue, clan bet…