The Peasant Girl Empress

The female protagonist transmigrates into the body of Mu Rong Jin, a nine-year-old farm girl. In a dynasty ruled by aristocratic clans and powerful nobles, her family is all about to die of thirst from the start. She wakes with a start and realizes it was only a dream, but a severe drought is coming, so she joins her clanspeople on a migration south.

After reaching the southern frontier, she draws on knowledge from her previous life to farm, hunt, trade, establish a clan territory, stockpile food and supplies, build high walls, and train private troops, advancing carefully at every step. She is also skilled at reading people and, with her exceptional cunning, sets her sights on wealth, beauty, people, power, emotions, and affairs of state. She toys with her enemies as if they were in the palm of her hand and secures victory through careful planning. As her territory expands, she eventually carves out a domain of her own. Then, after more than a decade of dedicated rule, she boosts agriculture and commerce, strengthens the military, and grows the population. With elite troops, ample provisions, and advanced weapons, she wins the people’s hearts and launches a northern campaign from the southern frontier, gradually conquering the realm and becoming an empress.

Mu Rong Jin is clever from a young age, independent, perceptive, and fond of trickery. The only daughter of Mu Rong Guang, she is cherished by the Mu Rong family. But after traveling three thousand li south, she comes to see how unchecked the powerful are and how little the common people’s lives are worth. This change of heart slowly chills the warmth within her...