(Everyone’s favorite + powerful heroine + one-sided crushes, no official couple + flawed characters, but ship whoever you like)
At first, she knows how to put on an act, be tactful, curry favor, and cultivate a spotless image. But from beginning to end, all she really wants is to become emperor! Who wouldn’t want to be emperor? We’re all born to be emperor!!!
Ji Laizhi worked her way from a small town all the way to a doctorate. Her lifelong dream was to become emperor. Then she died suddenly while reading and transmigrated into a world that was nominally equal between men and women.
Before she could pursue her grand ambitions, she was bound to a palace-intrigue System. The System ordered her to enter the palace as a consort and make her name in history.
Ji Laizhi looked at the foolish old emperor on the throne and smiled:
“Make my name in history? If I stick with him, I’ll be lucky if I don’t go down in history as a disgrace!”
The System told her to compete for the emperor’s favor, so she took energy pills instead and worked herself to the bone, earning top marks in all three imperial examinations and a post in the Hanlin Academy!
But then a powerful eunuch had her exiled to a remote backwater.
The nobles mocked her, saying that a merchant’s daughter could never become a respected official, and that the very idea was laughable!
Later,
She pacified bandits across four provinces, and they resented a woman commanding troops!
She crushed Prince Yan’s rebel forces, and they accused her of showing contempt for the imperial family!
Then the barbarians invaded from the south, their iron hooves trampling the land. The old emperor abandoned the capital, and the officials and nobles fled south in panic.
The nation was destroyed, families torn apart, and the people driven from their homes.
The land was filled with wailing, and people were reduced to eating their own children.
Ji Laizhi put the System to use.
The [Golden Wound Ointment], meant to heal injuries and improve beauty?
She refined and mass-produced it into a life-saving remedy for the three armies!
The [Mother-Child River Water], guaranteed to make women pregnant?
She used it to grow crops and nurture seedlings, freeing the people from famine!
In the end, she swept forward with irresistible force, and the entire court fell to its knees, begging her to ascend the throne!
She founded a new dynasty under a female emperor!
She built schools far and wide, formed an army of women, rode to Yanran, and led her armies across the world!
Wherever the sun and moon shine, let it all be Han territory.
Let every word spoken by the people be Chinese.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host]
[You have made your name in history and achieved the feat of becoming an emperor for the ages!]
