[Parallel world + nation-building]
Also known as: [After Transmigrating to the Qin Dynasty, I Became Ying Zheng’s Most Cherished Treasure]
Chen Miaoyi makes a deal with some mysterious being: if she completes its tasks, it will grant her wish.
She’s heard that this being was formed from the power of regret, so she figures the tasks will probably involve helping people make up for their regrets.
Helping people... that’s right.
Making up for regrets... also right.
But why is the person she has to help the First Emperor of Qin?
And why is the regret that the Qin dynasty fell apart just two generations after unifying the realm?
In the parallel timeline of 238 BC, Ying Zheng has just executed Lao Ai and had the two little brats thrown to their deaths. In a foul mood, he returns to Xianyang.
A servant reports that Madam Zheng, Fusu’s mother, gave birth to a daughter a few days ago. Out of courtesy, he goes to visit.
To his surprise, the infant beams at him, drooling, and he learns that Qin will successfully conquer the six kingdoms and unite the realm, only for Zhao Gao and Hu Hai to bring it crashing down again!
Looking at the child’s innocent, wide-eyed face, Ying Zheng sneers to himself: I can hear everything you’re thinking!
“Father, I want tofu pudding!”
Ying Zheng: “...” What is tofu pudding?
“Father, I want to fold a paper airplane!”
Ying Zheng: “...” What is a paper airplane?
“Father, this horse doesn’t even have stirrups. I can’t get on. Pick me up!”
Ying Zheng: “...” What are those?
One day, three-year-old Princess Huaxi, Ying Miaoyi, disappears again.
Meng Yi reports cautiously, “Your Majesty, the princess has left the palace again.”
Ying Zheng looks at the thin, inexpensive paper beneath his hand, takes a sip of the new tea he roasted just yesterday, and thinks about what might be served for dinner. “Let her do as she pleases.”
