Picking Up the Scraps in a World Where the Empress Grovels for Love

[Female lead with no romance + climbing to the top over men + military strategy in her head] Dong Miaoying transmigrates into a world full of people with romance-addled brains, where every man and woman is completely unhinged. Right from the start, the fake heiress accuses her of stealing. Dong Miaoying simply wipes her hands on the fake heiress’s face! Here, the empress starts a student-teacher romance and is pressured by the Grand Tutor into kneeling to serve tea to her future mother-in-law. When the empress resists, she actually says, “I don’t love you anymore! I’ll only serve tea to the mother of the man I love in the future!” The nobles and generals are just as deranged. They’d rather flirt than fight, and value beauty over the realm, handing over cities, selling military power, and betraying their allies for love. Everyone else is going crazy for love. Dong Miaoying only cares about earning military merit and picking up bargains. A noble young man asks for her hand along the way? “You want me as your concubine?” “You want to marry me as your second wife?” “Your Hun queen?” Dong Miaoying sneers and raises her spear. “Sorry, I only collect military merit, not men.” As she watches fools all over the world lose their minds for love, Dong Miaoying quietly snaps up military honors, military power, territory, and fierce generals. By the time eighteen warlords are beating one another half to death for love, and the empress is still agonizing over whether to kneel to her mother-in-law, Dong Miaoying has already used this bunch of lunatics to become the most powerful female warlord in the land. Others go crazy for love. I become a legend by picking up bargains. In this world of romance-addled people lowering themselves for love, I’m the one who wins big!