You Said I Was a Lonely Girl Fighting to Survive, So How Did I Become the Empress in a Romance Novel?

She transmigrates into the body of a penniless orphan whose parents are both dead.

Three strings of copper coins and a shabby hut from the start?

Chen Jingshu looks at the empty rice jar, then pulls out an old sheet of paper and a broken brush.

She turns The Tale of Meng Jiangnu into an illustrated storybook!

She only wanted to trade it for two jin of rice. Who knew the bookshop owner would toss her five taels of silver?

Pirated copies everywhere? She’ll sue you into bankruptcy!

The empress invites her to the palace? Her storybook goes straight into the imperial palace!

From a starving wretch at the village entrance to the “Storybook Empress,”

foreign publishers chase her for the rights,

and an elegant scholar arrives with a marriage contract, asking for her hand.

So much for surviving in ancient times being hard.

How did I become a winner in life by drawing storybooks?