[Transmigration + female lead + no romance + alternate history]
Chen Yuehe had just passed the civil service exam when she suffered a heart attack. And then… she died.
In one moment, she was reborn as the eldest daughter of a minor official in the ancient capital.
Chen Yuehe was furious. “This document is formatted incorrectly! This administration is far too inefficient! Why aren’t we making an example of the corrupt officials?!”
Her father said, “Young girls are so naive. It’s easy to flap your lips, but that doesn’t mean you’ll do any real work.”
Chen Yuehe replied, “That’s it?”
In a fit of anger, she relied on her extraordinary skills in “official document writing” and “grassroots field research” to fight her way from the county-level exams all the way to the palace examination.
For the licentiate exam, she wrote “Proposals for Improving the County’s Drainage System.”
For the provincial exam, she wrote “A Feasibility Report on Developing the County’s Sericulture Industry.”
For the metropolitan exam, she wrote “The State of Land Concentration in This Dynasty, Its Causes and Solutions.”
When the emperor asked her how to govern the country, she replied, “First, we must deepen administrative reform and establish an accountability system…”
From a “daughter of a concubine” whom everyone mocked to a “star of literary talent” who won top honors in all six examinations, it took her just ten years.
Content warning: The female lead grows over time and is relatively weak early on. Readers who like fast-paced power fantasies, turn back now!
The story is on the longer side, and the pacing is slow to warm up.
