The Invincible Loser

An office clerk falls asleep over his reports — and opens his eyes in an ancient empire, in the body of Ye Qingzhou: the disgraced heir of a princely house who spent five years in a dungeon on false slander. Freedom brings him not an embrace but a dagger from his "childhood friend," hired assassins, and a hunt for the family heirloom — the legendary Jinghong sword. To survive, he must defeat the empire's elite in a suitors' tournament, reclaim his title, and find out why the mysterious ruler of a hostile state demanded that he, specifically, be among the contenders.