【Alternate History + Empress + Warring States + Ensemble Cast + Modern-Day Transmigration + Infrastructure Building + A Slight Golden Finger】
Mu Changman transmigrated from an utterly ordinary college student into an unregistered nobody in an ancient world torn apart by war.
To her surprise, the wildly popular short-video app from the modern world had come along with her.
No need to panic. It wasn't a big deal. From the start, all she had was one life, and everything else depended on keeping her head down. For now, she managed to survive with the stubborn tenacity of someone half dead.
She had been a refugee, a vanguard soldier, and a beggar. She had even joined a fanatical religious sect in a rebellion, and witnessed firsthand what a living hell looked like.
In the end, she was lucky enough to take a master, and thought she would probably spend the rest of her life that way.
Until she realized that those carving up the realm and crowning themselves kings were nothing special, while those seated high in court were drawing salaries without doing their jobs.
If anyone could fight to unify the realm, if anyone could seize it, then why couldn't she?
She rose from the north, her iron cavalry riding across the snow to strike the northern tribes and burn their royal encampment to ashes.
Then she marched south, taking the realm one city and one stronghold at a time, claiming every inch of land with blood.
She built waterways, opened up wasteland for farming, and promoted trade, all while waging war and building infrastructure.
In a chaotic age when heroes rose from every corner, she recruited civil officials, gathered generals, won enemy commanders over, and cared for the people. Before long, a vivid, passionate company had gathered around her.
Some died fighting to cover her retreat. Some wielded their brushes to help her shape the world. One went from sworn enemy to her sharpest blade.
From a faint flame on the northern frontier, she became a wildfire sweeping across the Central Plains, painstakingly piecing the shattered realm back together.
Later histories recorded: Mu Changman rose from humble beginnings, unified the realm in ten years, and ushered in a century of peace. She was known to history as the Empress Yuan Chu.
