The Empress Dowager Is a Little Annoyed

[The Empress Dowager rules + daily power struggles + two strong leads, neither chaste + the nation and its people] What is it like to transmigrate into a book and wake up as the empress? Liu Jin’er has only one answer: absolutely awful. No matter how much she relies on years of reading novels to stir things up in the imperial harem, she can’t break free of that tiny world. And her true enemy isn’t here, but far away on a desolate stretch of farmland: her half-sister, whom she bullied as a child and who eventually led tens of thousands of starving refugees and rebels to attack the capital. The original owner’s sins have left Liu Jin’er, who transmigrated into the book, facing the fate of being chopped into a human pig by her half-sister. Liu Jin’er can only grit her teeth and accept it: Fine, then. I’ll go from the harem to the court, from empress to empress dowager, and see how much longer this dying dynasty can survive, and how much longer I can keep myself alive.