[Transmigrate and Build + Sky Screen Rankings + Strong Female Lead and Ambition + Mutual Devotion + Face-Slapping Satisfaction]
The county magistrate fled, the deputy magistrate dodged responsibility, the gentry made trouble, and sour old scholars scolded her: “A woman who meddles in government will bring down Heaven’s wrath.”
The whole world was waiting to laugh at her.
A laughingstock?
Shen Yan turned around and put modern infrastructure know-how to work, proving every last one of them wrong!
She built dams, fought epidemics, stabilized grain prices, boosted farming and sericulture, opened schools for ordinary children, and built trade routes...
Once shunned by everyone, Qingxi County had become a land of plenty envied by the entire realm.
She had only meant to keep her head down, build her career, and slowly overturn the wrongful extermination of her family.
But then the sky screen appeared, ranking the realm’s capable officials and broadcasting her achievements, which she had kept hidden among the common people, to the nine provinces and ten thousand states!
“What? The greatest hero in flood control is a woman?”
“What? She’s also the descendant of a convicted official?”
“What? She’s going to become Minister of Works?!”
The conservative faction erupted in fury, insisting that women in office would bring ruin to the country.
Shen Yan stood in the throne hall, with a map of the realm stretching before her and a canopy of parasols held aloft by the people behind her.
