The Sky Screen Appears in Great Qin: The Eternal Empress Continues Her Reign

[Transmigration + sky screen countdowns + no romance + historical fiction + Qin Shi Huang + career-minded heroine]

Ying Zhao, a modern person, was born into the past as Qin Shi Huang’s seventh daughter.

My father was the First Emperor through the ages, but he couldn’t remember my name.

I lived in this palace for fifteen years, and no one ever cared about me.

I never intended to make anyone care. At six, I hid my ambitions. At nine, I bought informants. At eleven, I secured Pei County. Liu Bang, Xiao He, Lu Zhi, Han Xin, Xiang Yu, and Zhang Liang were all on my list. Some would fight battles; others would keep the books. I would sit in a corner and turn the whole world into a chessboard.

On my fifteenth birthday, a sky screen came crashing down.

A streamer from the future put the words “Emperor Zhaosheng” in the sky, and exposed the plans I’d hidden for fifteen years: paper, the curved-plow, potatoes, gunpowder, a western campaign, and a Qin dynasty that would last a thousand years.

The court turned to look at me in the corner.

Qin Shi Huang looked at me and said, “You wanted to be emperor at six?”

I said, “Yes.”

He laughed. It was the first time in his life my father had laughed so loudly.

He said, “You’re better than I am.”

Later, I ascended the throne. The women in the imperial harem stopped competing for favor, and half the heroes of China stood in my court. I lived to the age of forty-two, then passed away.

But that wasn’t what mattered.

The Great Qin endured for a very, very long time, long enough for later generations to call me Emperor Zhaosheng.