[Female-led power fantasy + farming + fleeing famine + decisive action + helping the people + political intrigue + battlefields + unification]
Shen Qichao was an ability-wielding commander in the apocalypse. After being murdered, she woke up in the body of the eldest sister of a family with no sons, in a home stripped bare and beset by creditors.
A bully wants to force her into marriage?
That very night, the family's silver and provisions “vanish into thin air.” She reports him in turn, sending his entire family into exile three thousand li away.
A chaotic age is coming, and the roads are littered with the starving dead?
She leads her younger siblings on a “flight from famine,” using her knowledge and abilities to turn their journey into a road to prosperity.
At first, she only wanted to take care of her own doorstep.
But she witnesses starving people driven to eat their own children, women bought and sold like goods, and sound policies crushed by the powerful...
The fire in her heart blazes into an unstoppable inferno.
If the court is rotten, then she'll enter it and become its hardest backbone and sharpest blade!
If the rules are unjust, she'll change them. She'll open schools for girls, allow women to serve as officials, and forge an unprecedented legacy.
The barbarians demand a marriage alliance? Clad in armor and gripping her spear, she thunders across the land: “The mountains and rivers of Zili will never be bought with the flesh and blood of women!”
When the realm falls apart, she'll take up the reins and raise her sword, ending war with war and forging a peaceful, unified realm.
The world knows only that the “Divine Physician” can revive the dying, the “Weaving Goddess” is richer than a kingdom, and the “First Imperial Merchant” has influence everywhere...
But they don't know that the greatest strategist in the realm, a woman who stirs the tides of the court from its very pinnacle, is one and the same person.
Once the young emperor is secure on the throne and envoys from every nation arrive at court, he bows and asks, “What do you desire, Master?”
Shen Qichao smiles calmly.
“My only wish is for everyone in the realm, especially its women, to have the right to choose their own fate.”
Many years later, children recite in school: “Without Shen Qing, the ages would be an endless night.”
[There is a one-sided crush in the romance. Whoever the heroine loves is the male lead.]
