Top talent agent Shen Qingci transmigrates into the daughter of a condemned official. With a wooden cangue around her neck, she is sent as a slave to the Qingyi Bureau, the ancient world's equivalent of a "publicity department."
The skills she used in her previous life to make top-tier stars and manipulate trending topics become her only bargaining chips in a deadly world.
While others are tested on their copying, she plants clues to overturn her case in official documents.
While others tread carefully, she uses a "Plea in the Torrential Rain" to send her superior to the judgment seat.
While others compete for favor in the harem, she starts a battle for public attention at court.
She uses public opinion to bring down salt merchants, crafts a public image to help a prince seize the throne, and uses crisis management to quell a popular uprising.
From low-ranking clerk to female minister, every step she takes rewrites the history of women being barred from politics.
Until the new emperor on the dragon throne reaches out to her. "Qingci, will you take the empress's seat?"
But the prince who guards the border burns her letter and sighs. "If you want to fulfill your ambitions at court, I'll guard your realm at the frontier."
Shen Qingci stands with her brush before the pages of history and smiles faintly.
"I've never wanted to be anyone's appendage."
"I want my name to stand alongside yours in the glorious pages of history."
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
