[Harem intrigue + governing the court + military strategy + idealism]
While other people transmigrate as princesses and are showered with affection, Xiao Mingzhao faces the heroine's hostility from the start after transmigrating as a princess.
Her mother died young, and at just fourteen, she is a disposable character in a court-intrigue novel who won't survive a hundred chapters. Her intended ending is to be sent off in a political marriage and die in a foreign land. The entire book will give her only one line: “The Fourth Princess died in Xirong.”
But she refuses to accept her fate.
An abacus in one hand, a ledger in the other.
The Consort's witchcraft plot? She turns it to her advantage and makes the mastermind stand trial instead.
The court plans to send her off in a political marriage? She digs through the messy accounts of grain, oil, salt, and firewood to uncover the enemy state's hidden cards, forcing its delegation to swallow its own diplomatic letter.
Her second brother returns to court with “military honors” on his head? She travels a thousand miles to the northern frontier and uncovers the truth behind eight hundred deaths on the rocky riverbank.
Her Crown Prince brother dotes on her, so she records that affection in her ledger and pays it back with interest. She saves his life, secures his position as Crown Prince, and helps him prop up the tottering Great Xia, brick by brick.
From an abandoned daughter of the cold palace to a Grand Princess who rules the state, from a little ledger to A Code of Conduct for Women of Great Xia.
She will make the world understand: the lives of women and commoners belong in the accounts, and not a single one can be left out.
“In the end, everything in this world comes down to an account. I'm here to settle the score with them once and for all!”
