Disguised as a Man, She Became a God of Slaughter, and the Powerful Ministers Fell to Their Knees

Cross-dressing as a man + mistaken assumptions + overwhelming strength + court politics + power games

The Gu family had served as generals for a century, but one day they were falsely accused of treason. Every man in the family was exiled and died there. The only survivor, Gu Changning, was an illegitimate daughter. To uncover the truth and reopen the case, she disguised herself as a man and took the identity of her deceased cousin, fighting her way from the military examinations into the imperial court.

In her previous life, she was a combat instructor at a military academy. After she transmigrated, she inherited her original body’s freakish natural strength: she could swing a 150-kilogram stone lock as if it were a toy, and one slap sent the toughest warrior in the army straight into the dirt.

Winning the martial examinations and becoming an overnight legend would have been enough. But the military theories she casually quoted were hailed by the Ministry of War as “military genius unseen in a century.” The troop routes she sketched on a whim were deemed “a master strategy for defeating the enemy.” Even her decision to stockpile grain ahead of time for convenience was interpreted as “predicting the northern tribes’ invasion three months in advance”…

Gu Changning: Isn’t that common sense?

The young Vice Minister of War finished reading the secret report in his hands, his fingers trembling. “Gu Changning, every step you take puts you ahead of everyone else. Who are you, really?”

Gu Changning clenched her fist. What if I said I’m just a brute?

The Vice Minister of War smiled faintly. “A brute wouldn’t have laid such a precise supply route three months in advance. You needn’t tell me. I’ll find out for myself.”