This is a female-oriented story with no System, no romance, child-rearing, a non-dominant heroine, and no basis in historical records.
Ding Rou had just come out of a large Eastern Han tomb with her advisor. She was thinking about getting a good meal when she looked up and got hit by a stroke of luck.
The runaway cart sent her crashing into the late Han dynasty, during the Three Kingdoms era. The good news was that she had become Cao Cao’s eldest daughter-in-law, a woman of high status. The bad news was the timing: she had arrived after Cao Ang died in the Battle of Wancheng and his original wife killed herself. Her husband was gone, her mother-in-law and aunt, Ding Shi, was coldly demanding a divorce so she could return to her family, and her two younger brothers were itching to take on Cao Pi, just waiting for him to become emperor and punish them.
Ding Rou looked down at the posthumous child in her belly, then at her relatives, all with their own ideas. She knew exactly what she wanted: she had no interest in conquering the realm, found household and palace intrigue exhausting, and thought revenge and face-slapping were too much trouble. She only wanted to lie flat, raise her child in peace, and keep her two foolish brothers alive.
But in a time of chaos, it was never easy for a widow with a child to make a living.
All she could rely on was the little historical knowledge in her head and a heart that refused to back down from a fight.
Yet somehow, the less she wanted to get caught up in things, the more she was pushed forward.
