Transmigrating to the Ming: The Sky Screen Reveals I’m an Empress for the Ages

[No romance, infrastructure, technological development, unifying the Earth] She transmigrates as Zhu Lingxi, Zhu Yuanzhang’s eldest legitimate granddaughter. Facing a suspicious imperial grandfather, a mother who died young, and a kind, overworked father, one thought burns ever more fiercely in her heart: Why shouldn’t the eldest legitimate granddaughter of Emperor Gao, the Great Ancestor, ascend the throne? To survive in the imperial family, she puts on the appearance of a useless fool while secretly plotting her next moves. And so the young Princess Ning’an begins the ultimate challenge. In public, she is a meek, timid nobody. In private, she is an ambitious, decisive career woman. She plans to keep her head down until the Jingnan Campaign, then seize the throne in one fell swoop. But fate has other plans. Auspicious clouds gather, and a sky screen descends! [This episode’s feature: The Great Ming’s first empress, Emperor Ming Sheng Zhao?!] Zhu Lingxi: “???” As she watches the sky screen tear her carefully crafted disguise to shreds, Zhu Lingxi takes a bite of her candied hawthorn and flashes her silent imperial grandfather an innocent smile. Old Zhu watches the sky screen reveal that, after his death, the men serving his own eldest legitimate granddaughter, including Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Neng, and Zhang Yu... With their help, she conquers the grasslands, crushes the Jurchen, destroys Japan, and even brings foreign nations under the rule of Emperor Ming Sheng Zhao... She introduces the imperial civil service examination for women, breaking a thousand years of stifling tradition. Just as everyone points out that the wars have brought suffering to the people, they notice that the common folk on the screen are all rolling up their sleeves, eager to join the army and earn glory for their families... The officials glance at one another and whisper among themselves. At last, they all kneel and declare, “We humbly request that Your Majesty name Princess Ning’an as the Imperial Princess Heir.” “Fine, fine, so you want my seat, do you?” “Come on, if you’re so capable, you can sit in it.”