She Won't Be Empress: She'll Be the Power Behind the Emperor

Shen Zhiyi transmigrates into the body of a palace maid in the Cold Palace. Her System has just two tasks: farm the land and torment the villain. She diligently clears the fields and, along the way, nurses the starving former crown prince, Xiao Jingyuan, back to health. Then she discovers the truth: the land belongs to the imperial family, and so does the man. Every tomato she grows and every tael she earns would be a capital crime if discovered. Shen Zhiyi gets it: without power, she can't even protect a patch of land. So she quietly farms in the Cold Palace while expanding her business across the Three Realms. She sets the grain prices in the capital, controls the Imperial Medical Academy's medicinal herbs, and calls the shots on military supplies at the border. By the time the emperor realizes what's happening, his edicts can no longer leave the capital. And behind her, the former crown prince she raised is steadily making his way toward the Dragon Throne. On the day Xiao Jingyuan ascends the throne, she stands at the very edge of the crowd. The entire court cries, “Long live the emperor!” No one knows who truly changed the world. The new emperor's first edict: women may do business. Her name is written on the first line. Later, she opens a small restaurant in the northwest. Its signature dish is red-braised pork. Every year on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, a young man in plain clothes rushes over, eats a bowl of pork, and quietly goes to wash dishes in the kitchen. Snow falls outside the window, just like the first snowfall in the Cold Palace all those years ago. Only this time, she is the master of her own world. #FarmingNovel #StrongFemaleLeadAndPoliticalIntrigue #TradeAcrossTheThreeRealms #RiseFromTheColdPalace