I Became Wu Zetian's Daughter and Led the Tang Dynasty to Colonize the World

Transmigrating into the body of Princess Anding, the daughter of Wu Zetian who died before her first birthday, Lin Yue thinks she’s got a hellish start from the get-go.

Stay calm. Don’t panic. She’s a PhD in engineering with five SCI papers to her name. She can make a few inventions in the imperial palace, keep her head down until she’s grown, and then make a run for it. How hard could that be?

Until she hears her mother’s voice in her head:

“This child’s eyes don’t look like a baby’s...”

“I’ll find a Taoist priest to take a look. If she’s a monster, kill her.”

Lin Yue: “...”

To stay alive, Lin Yue spends every day testing her birth mother’s limits.

She performs a spirit-medium dance at a palace banquet, pulls up the peonies in the imperial garden to plant potatoes, and scares her brother Li Xian to tears by explaining “constitutional monarchy.”

Everyone thinks the little princess has gone mad.

The crazier she acts, the stranger her mother’s gaze becomes.

It shifts from murderous intent, to scrutiny, to... admiration?

At last, one day, Wu Zetian summons her to her bedchamber, dismisses everyone else, and fixes her gaze on Lin Yue.

“Tell me, where did you come from?”

Lin Yue paints a picture of the future: towering skyscrapers, planes and high-speed trains, and a glowing brick in everyone’s hand.

“Since you know so much...”

“Then stay and help me turn this world upside down.”

From then on, the Tang dynasty takes a decidedly bizarre turn.

The court officials collapse to their knees in despair. “Your Majesty, you can’t keep letting the princess do whatever she wants!”

Wu Zetian glances at her daughter, who is busy drawing a map of the world, and says coolly:

“She’s right. Keep quiet.”