[Female-led story + female general + strong heroine + light mystery + references to the Southern Ming, slow-paced with lots of detail]
The ancestor I’ve worshipped for three hundred years was actually me?
I was a talented woman in my previous life, but after transmigrating, I became practically illiterate?
Zuo Daoqiu, enfeoffed as the Countess Roujia by the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming.
At the Battle of Mopan Mountain, she led three hundred battered soldiers in the rearguard, fighting to the death.
When she opened her eyes again…
She had become a romance-obsessed girl idol who debuted through an audition and was ridiculed across the internet.
The company disliked her, her groupmates ostracized her, and her fans cursed her out.
Her own mother never called to ask if she’d eaten, only to ask whether her younger brother could record a pep talk video for his mock exams next week.
Zuo Daoqiu: …
Fine.
You call this being hated by everyone?
Then you’ve never seen how I used to curse out Wu Sangui.
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When her family summoned her for the ancestral rites, Zuo Daoqiu was sent back to the kitchen to wash vegetables.
She dried her hands and climbed over the wall into the main ancestral hall.
The clan elders, all dressed in Qing official robes and sporting Manchu queues, were kneeling before an ancestral tablet:
“Spirit tablet of Zuo Huaishu, Countess Roujia, ennobled by imperial decree of the Great Qing”
She picked up the door bar and kicked over the offering table.
“The Countess Roujia you’re worshipping was a woman.”
That night, chaos erupted in the family ancestral hall.
Her nineteen-year-old sister, Zuo Wei, hid behind a pillar and livestreamed it.
The story exploded on the trending lists.
