[Pocket Dimension + Empress + Feel-Good Fiction + Palace Intrigue + Political Scheming / Rise to Power]
Lin Xiyue, a corporate hotshot, transmigrates into an ugly musician of the lowest caste, a lowborn worse off than a servant.
Musicians belong to a despised hereditary caste, condemned to menial work and denied freedom and dignity.
Fortunately, she gets a golden finger when she transmigrates: a combination of a pocket dimension and a System, giving her the confidence to defy fate.
When drought strikes, she uses her sharp mind and pocket dimension to end the drought and plague, saving countless lives. She forces the emperor to issue a special pardon and free her from her lowborn status.
Though her status is officially revoked, her past follows her like a shadow. The people still refuse to accept her, even though she saved them.
Then Prince Jin suddenly petitions the emperor for permission to marry her. She has no desire to join the imperial family, but in a rigidly hierarchical feudal society, the weak have no right to dignity. So be it: she’ll storm the imperial court, seize the throne, become an empress, and take her fate into her own hands!
