[Transmigrate into a book · strong female lead · raising kids · scheming male lead · harem rivalry battlefield · nation-building and claiming the throne · open harem]
What do you do after transmigrating into the role of a disposable legitimate daughter?
Lin Qingyao’s answer: Don’t be someone else’s stepping stone. Be the one moving the pieces.
In the original story, she was a stepping stone for the crown prince and her illegitimate younger sister, driven mad by unrequited love and doomed to a tragic death.
After she arrives, she tears up the engagement, exposes her sister’s schemes, reveals the crown prince’s true colors, and turns the general’s household upside down with her own hands.
Amid the frontier’s sand and wind, she farms, boosts trade, trains troops, and wins people over.
The four “villainous younger brothers” she takes in become her strongest allies in military, political, commercial, and underworld circles.
The scheming young hostage who clings to her is seen right through, but she can’t shake him off. The more she teases him, the more hooked he gets.
When the north suffers a severe drought, she digs canals and redirects water. When floods ravage the south, she provides relief through public works. When powerful clans scheme against one another, she turns their strength to her advantage. When foreign enemies threaten the border, she trades commercial routes for peace.
Until one day, everyone realizes she isn’t just trying to stay alive.
She’s building a nation.
And the person sitting on the dragon throne was supposed to be someone else.
Gu Yelan kneels at her feet, grinning like a contented fox. “Your Majesty, have you decided whether to make me your principal consort?”
Lin Qingyao looks down at him, then at the four younger brothers, three men, and a crowd of “candidates” waiting outside the hall to be chosen...
“...Can you all stop fighting while I’m reviewing memorials?”
