Guarding Zhao

If you had the chance to transmigrate to ancient times, what would you do?

Female transmigrates into a man’s body | No romance | Focused on building a career | A story of country and people

After being bedridden for a year, Su Zhaozhao had a strange dream that spanned seventy years in ancient times.

She became Lin Zhao, a five-year-old boy in a poor village in the Great Jing dynasty.

As a child, he secretly studied beneath the window and led his family in making a living. As a youth, he sat for the examinations and earned distinction, making a name for himself across the county. Step by step, he worked his way through years of study until he passed the metropolitan examination and became a jinshi.

Though she could have stayed in the capital and climbed the ranks, she instead volunteered for a post in the provinces.

With the experience of two lives, she can see the ills of her age at a glance. Well versed in history, she knows the pain of a realm in turmoil.

She seeks neither power nor riches, only to help the poor she has seen with her own eyes. She does not seek merely to preserve herself, but strives to benefit the people of an entire region. Gentleness is her outward appearance; compassion lies at her core, and her principles are etched into her bones.

Everyone says the young man has a brilliant future ahead of him. Only she knows the truth:

She will remain alone all her life, forsake love, and follow the path of the imperial examinations. But helping the people is her true purpose.

Only when she wakes from her dream does she learn that half a lifetime of political ups and downs was all an illusion.

Yet the fertile fields she planted, the village schools she founded, and the people she protected all truly existed.

So what if it was a dream of Zhuang Zhou? She came, she fought, and she held fast to her principles. That is enough to live up to the name “Zhaozhao.”