After the Dream of the Red Chamber Family Is Seized, I Become Emperor of Outer Northeast China

After transmigrating into the Ming dynasty as Zhu Zhaoyu, the Thirteenth Prince, a woman disguised as a man, she is forced to spend ten years frozen in the bitter cold of the Far Northeast because the golden finger inside her is too powerful.

When she emerges ten years later, she is greeted by the tragic spectacle of the Red Chamber cast being dispossessed and exiled.

Looking at Lin Daiyu, now homeless and adrift; Wang Xifeng, gravely ill and near death; and all the Red Chamber women left with nowhere to go…

Zhu Zhaoyu waves a hand. “Come with me to the Far Northeast. I’ll show you how to build a steam engine by hand!”

And so, everything takes a drastic turn:

Lin Daiyu becomes the First Academy’s chief scientist, improving cannon rifling with mathematical formulas.

Wang Xifeng takes charge of the Far East Trading Company, draining the Russian Empire’s treasury through border trade.

Xue Baochai handles logistics, laying railway tracks for steam trains across Siberia!

Then the capital sends an imperial edict accusing Zhu Zhaoyu of treason and ordering her to come to the capital alone and stand trial at once.

Will she obey?

Now dressed as a woman again, Zhu Zhaoyu stands on the deck of an invincible ironclad. Behind her, a vast tide of steam blots out the sky; at her side stands the God of War of the Qi Family Army, sworn to follow her to the death.

“Obey the edict? I’ll lead my troops to the capital right now and see whether I can take the throne my father sits on!”