Lin Zhaozhao transmigrates.
She becomes the least noticeable of the imperial palace's eighteen princesses, while her seventeen older siblings are locked in a vicious struggle for power.
She promptly decides to lie flat: play dumb, take it easy, eat well, and hope to survive until the final episode.
But eighteen years later, after the princes and princesses have fought until she is the only one left, the entire court kneels before her.
“Your Highness, please ascend the throne!”
Lin Zhaozhao: ??? I was just enjoying the drama. How did I end up becoming emperor?
And somehow, she's also got a lousy System bound to her mind.
[Ding! Newbie mission: Ascend the throne and become emperor. Failure penalty: Broadcast every single private thought you've had over the past eighteen years to the entire palace.]
Lin Zhaozhao: ...Including the time I said the late emperor's robes looked like bedsheets?
[System: Including that.]
Lin Zhaozhao takes a deep breath. “Attendants, help me change.”
Later, the court officials discover that their new ruler is a little strange.
She pulls out a design for a curved-plow tiller. “Use this for farming. It'll double the harvest.”
She introduces KPI assessments. “Do a good job and you get a bonus. Do a bad job and your pay gets docked.”
She invents glass, cement, cannons, and steam engines. “Let the world experience a tiny taste of modern technology.”
Envoys from enemy nations beg for mercy, while aristocratic clans wail and cry for help.
Lounging in the imperial garden, Lin Zhaozhao soaks up the sun and munches on melon seeds as she sums it up:
“I only wanted to be a lazy fish, but somehow I got so caught up in the rat race that I became an emperor for the ages.”
