Reborn in the Three Kingdoms: A Transmigrator's Fight for Survival

[Sweet romance and angst + original female lead + Three Kingdoms political intrigue] Xue Zao, an overworked history buff who loves the Three Kingdoms era, dies in an accident while pulling an all-nighter to research historical records. When she opens her eyes again, she has been reborn in the Eastern Han dynasty as the cherished daughter of a merchant family. She plans to rely on her knowledge of history and lie flat until the chaos is over. But then her family falls into ruin, her parents die young, and only a few years into her marriage, she is widowed and driven to the brink by the ravages of war.

To survive, she disguises herself as a man and joins Cao Cao’s camp. With her precise predictions of historical events, she advises him to establish the tuntian farming system and anticipates the course of battles, becoming the most dazzling strategist in Cao Cao’s tent overnight. But behind the halo of her “foresight” lies a warlord’s deep suspicion. Cao Cao grips her wrist, his eyes full of scrutiny and possessiveness. “You have three choices. Stay by my side, or your ‘foresight’ will become a death sentence.”

From then on, she is the military adviser who plans strategy in his tent, the confidante he calls “Zaozao” in the study at night, and his right hand in pacifying the north. After he becomes King of Wei, she is also the consort kept exclusively for him in the inner palace.

Through twenty-six turbulent years, she stands by him through the flames of Guandu and the devastating defeat at Red Cliffs. She watches him change from a bold and brilliant warlord into the gray-haired King of Wei. She changes the tragedy of the Battle of Wancheng and gives birth to Cao Ning, a young daughter absent from the history books. Yet she cannot save Guo Jia, stop Xun Yu from remaining loyal, or hold back the tide of history.

In the twenty-fifth year of Jian’an, Cao Cao dies of illness. As he lies dying, he clutches her hand and says, each word soaked in grief, “Live on for me, and protect our children.”

By then, his eldest son Cao Pi has ascended the throne and is secretly plotting against her son. Her young daughter is oblivious to the danger hanging over her. Sima Yi’s wolfish gaze has already begun to fix on the palace of Wei...