[Strong Female Lead] [Transmigration] [Turbulent Times] [Political Intrigue] [Multiple Male Leads] [Official Career] [Historical Romance] [Original]
I am a history PhD who loves the sciences, transmigrated into the fallen, orphaned daughter of a powerful family in the Southern Dynasty.
System? Golden finger? No such thing.
But I have a knowledge base spanning five thousand years of Chinese history.
My family wants to use me as a pawn in a political marriage?
They tell me to make a good impression at the Hualin Banquet. I refuse. What are they going to do about it?
The powerful at the imperial banquet ask me to authenticate a "masterpiece"?
I push up a pair of nonexistent glasses. "The brushstrokes give it away. It's a forgery."
One sentence, and I wipe the smiles off their faces.
I open the household registry ledger and point to the patterns in the numbers. "Your Majesty, where did your tax revenue go? Was it embezzled, or were you the one being swindled?"
The hall falls silent. His Majesty turns deathly pale.
The enemy troops are at the gates, and the court is trembling in fear?
I spread out the city defenses map. "Rebuild the barbican, install counterweight trebuchets, and make some simple Molotov cocktails. Hou Jing? He won't be getting out alive."
I thought I'd come here to find love, but every day I'm academically crushing people with knowledge from another era.
Until the cold and ruthless Prince of Xiangdong blocks my way. "Shen Zhiwei, what exactly is in that head of yours?"
And the mysterious commander of the Censorate whispers in my ear, "Zhiwei, come with me. I can give you an entirely new world."
On one side is a prince who can take me to the pinnacle of power. On the other is a confidant who would build an ideal kingdom with me.
I smile and push away the phoenix crown and alliance pact they offer.
I'm not here to become an empress or a general's wife. I'm here to reform the country!
"It's time for the Southern Dynasty to change, and to change in a new way."
"What I want is a happy populace, a unified country, and peace throughout the land!"
The writing skills are profound, the wording is simple and elegant, and it has charm. It is a relatively mature ancient style novel that I like.
The layout is huge. I really like the heroine, she is brave and resourceful. It's antique, and many of the expressions are very particular. At first glance, it can be seen that effort and research have been put into it. I just watched the latest chapter and it's quite addictive. Come on!