[Man transmigrates into a woman, Gourmet, empress, career-focused, the empress is a position, no romance, rat race]
After staying up all night grinding away, Lu Qingci wakes up as the disgraced empress confined to the cold palace of the Great Xia Dynasty.
Bad news: She's transmigrated, she's a disgraced empress, and she's gone from a man to a woman.
Good news: Her level-10 hoarding mouse character from a ten-year-old game has merged with her.
As a man who couldn't even get the hang of office politics, Lu Qingci sets herself a goal.
Make money!
Then leave for faraway places and vanish from one another's lives.
But after a clash between modern thinking and an ancient emperor, she somehow becomes the emperor's trusted confidante!?
From providing disaster relief through labor to introducing high-yield seeds,
from purifying mineral salt to making sugar available to everyone,
from the invention of paper to schools springing up everywhere.
This is a partnership built on mutual trust and shared political ideals, with no romance involved.
Until the young emperor grows old and frail. Lying on his dragon bed, he looks at the remarkable woman whose stunning, aloof face is just as it was in the cold palace, and sighs, “We agreed there'd be no immortality. You're three years older than I am, yet you still look just as young.”
Lu Qingci: “Then what if I could give you eternal life with my own life!?”
The emperor's face changes dramatically. He glares at her, bristling with anger. “Get lost! I've already struggled for sixty years. I'm eighty years old! Empress, give me a break and let me get some sleep. The crown prince is young. Let him carry on your dream!”
The new emperor cowers in a corner, trembling: Don't come near me. I want to retire!
May this land know no more famine, and may peace reign across the realm.
One day,
amid songs of praise for a flourishing age,
a white horse and a pot of rough wine: “I've come to see this golden age!”
It's unexpectedly good-looking, half fantasy, half career flow, and the plot doesn't drag on, so it's a good food [OK]