Shen Zhiwei, a PhD in agricultural science, casually agrees to “save the world” after an all-night experiment. The next moment, she transmigrates to a remote village in ancient times.
A starving orphan lies curled up in a broken-down house. The wooden tag at her waist bears two characters: Shen Zhiwei. The same name as hers. She uses the girl’s identity to get by, promising to save enough money to buy her a coffin and give her a proper burial.
Then she discovers that she is bound to five world-saving Systems, four of which come with fatal flaws. Shennong drains the land’s vitality, the War God damages the meridians, the Treasure Gatherer pursues profit to the extreme, and the World-Quelling Laws are cold and merciless. Even the Systems admit that their flaws cannot be fixed, and saving the world will only delay its doom.
Shen Zhiwei rolls a grain of millet between her fingertips and says, “Who says they can’t be fixed?”
From farming in a remote village to ascending the throne as an empress, from correcting the flaws to sweeping across ten thousand nations, she follows a path no one from the future has ever taken. She does not lust for power, thirst for bloodshed, or engage in palace infighting and rivalry between women. With only her desire to protect the people, she ruthlessly purges the noble clans’ corruption and unites the strength of the masses through benevolence.
Later, she abolishes foreign languages worldwide, establishes a universal written language, and ends millennia of warfare. With a perfect civilization born of her reforms, she gives back to the future, earning boundless merit and faith and becoming the one and only Five-Spirit Empress of the ages.
Along the way, she gave many people a path to follow. Together, they walked it to the very end.
[No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] [Farming, World-Building, and Gender Equality]
I still like this novel very much. It's progressing very quickly. Hey [Love] [Love]