You've Unlocked the Empress's Top-Up Manual

[Alternate-world transmigration, no romance, an empress who grows into her role, clearheaded and career-minded, a strong heroine who isn’t invincible]

[Supporting characters aren’t made stupid just to serve the plot, and the golden finger stays reasonably low-key]

Spend money!

Level up!

Stay alive!

After dying of exhaustion from staying up all night and transmigrating into a high-risk empress, Gu Wushu laughs.

Thank you for asking. I came with a top-up manual as my golden finger!

The harem is in chaos? She turns around and sends someone off to become a general!

The court gives her a hard time? She opens a publishing house and gets the young palace eunuchs churning out storybooks nonstop to brainwash the whole country!

Northern Hu spies try to poison her? She pins them down with an iron fan and smiles. “Money or your life?”

With her left hand, she spends money to recruit loyal, fierce generals. With her right, she prints storybooks to strike at her enemies and stir up trouble.

Sister Shu’s life as emperor is just... incredible! Explosive!

[This story has political schemes and satisfying moments, but it isn’t mindless wish fulfillment]

[A light ensemble cast]

[The heroine isn’t good or evil. She’s simply a selfish pragmatist with limits she won’t cross]

[No romance. Any apparent flirtation by the heroine is purely for her own ends]