Beneath Natural Disasters, I Serve as Minister and Chancellor

This story follows a refugee girl who loses everything in a natural disaster. Drawing on advanced knowledge of water management, farming, and disease prevention learned from her elders, along with her remarkable composure, she faces one catastrophe after another, from floods and droughts to locust plagues and epidemics, pleading for the people and struggling to make a living. She enters officialdom as a low-ranking clerk and rises step by step from a disaster victim despised by others to the pinnacle of power. Amid the treacherous currents of the imperial court, she and the male lead, a powerful official famed for his ruthlessness, go from testing one another to joining forces. Together, they fight corrupt officials and aristocratic clans who care only for their own interests and treat human lives as worthless, root out corruption, and introduce new policies. In the end, she becomes a high-ranking minister as a woman and ushers in an age of peace and prosperity. The story's appeal lies in the heroine having no golden finger: she solves problems throughout using hard-core knowledge of ancient engineering, management, and disaster studies. It delivers one satisfying moment after another, with her career and romance unfolding in tandem, and showcases how women in ancient times could excel at surviving and advancing in the workplace under extreme conditions.