Overworked office drone Gu Changsheng died suddenly while working overtime. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into the palace of the Great Qian Dynasty as a fake eunuch about to be castrated!
At the last moment, he was reassigned to serve the puppet female emperor, who was rumored to have been stripped of her power and left in dire straits.
He planned to keep his head down and survive unnoticed. What he didn’t know was that the cold and aloof empress could hear his thoughts!
[Working overtime every day, and now I’m stuck doing 24/7 shifts even after transmigrating. The empress looks pretty, but is she not right in the head? The treacherous ministers have her completely under their thumb!]
[Oh, look, the Minister of Revenue is whining about being broke again. The gold in his cellar is practically piled up into a mountain. Confiscate his estate, and we’ll have the army’s pay!]
[The Western Frontier is about to rebel? Only an idiot would fight them. Send someone to win over their deputy general! His wife and kids are being held hostage in our capital, after all!]
[That dragon robe doesn’t look good today. It makes her look fat.]
Gu Changsheng ranted furiously in his mind while acting meek and obedient on the outside.
The empress sat upon the Dragon Throne, her expression unchanged, but inside, her thoughts were already in turmoil. The way she looked at him grew increasingly strange.
With Gu Changsheng’s inner thoughts to guide her, the empress eliminated treacherous ministers, quelled rebellions, and filled the treasury, gradually reclaiming her power.
Until one day, the empress cornered Gu Changsheng against a wall, her beautiful eyes blazing with anger. “Gu, my dear attendant, I hear… you want to be my empress consort?”
Gu Changsheng: “!!!” (I don’t! I didn’t! Your Majesty, let me explain!)
