Su Wanqing, 26, is a “senior brick mover” at a major tech company. She earns 12,000 yuan a month, half of which goes to rent. A severe social anxiety sufferer, her only hobbies are staying home to binge-watch shows, order takeout, and cuddle her cat. Her cat, “Your Majesty,” is a cool, aloof orange tabby.
One late night, she works herself to death on overtime (don’t worry, she isn’t really dead). When she wakes up, she finds she has transmigrated to a parallel world called the Great Sheng Dynasty.
The most outrageous thing about this world is that women rule the court! The emperor is a woman, the chancellor is a woman, and most of the ministers heading the Six Ministries are women. Men are expected to look pretty and manage the household, while women make their mark and defend their homeland.
And Su Wanqing has transmigrated into the body of the lowest-ranking kitchen hand in the imperial kitchens, whose daily duties are washing and chopping vegetables, tending the fire, and hauling water.
But she has a secret no one else knows: the smartphone she carries everywhere has somehow become linked to an app called the “Time-Space Marketplace”!
And so begins the extraordinary double life of a modern homebody office worker. In the past, she becomes the female emperor’s most trusted “Master of the Divine Mechanisms Pavilion,” using modern knowledge to help her build infrastructure, reform the bureaucracy, make gunpowder, and grow potatoes. In the present, she is a mysterious antiques dealer who occasionally brings out “priceless treasures handed down through the ages” to sell, going from a salary of 12,000 yuan a month to a mysterious tycoon worth over a hundred million. And the cool, aloof female emperor’s gaze seems to be growing more and more… unusual?
