I Have to Die to Get Rich

Modern office worker Julian Jian travels back in time to become a disgraced prince of the Qian Dynasty. He is bound to the Death-Seeker System: if legitimately killed, he returns to the modern world with a hundredfold fortune. To achieve financial freedom, he provokes corrupt officials, major clans, and royal nobles. Everyone misinterprets his actions, seeing his attempts at courting death as him rooting out traitors. He fails at dying and rises to become a powerful figure in the court.