Synopsis
When other people transmigrate, they become empresses or favored consorts. At worst, they're maids who get pinned against a wall by a prince.
Su Wanyi had it even worse. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself a single mother in a ruined courtyard, nearly freezing to death.
She had no golden finger, no silver in her pockets, and only a six-year-old son by her side. He was thin as a stick, his hands covered in chilblains, and he was standing on tiptoe to make her medicine.
The child was called Xiao Heng.
At first, Su Wanyi only wanted to flee with him, evade their pursuers, and scrape together enough to eat. Just staying alive would be good enough for her.
But gradually, she realized she seemed to have seen this child somewhere in history.
Xiao Heng: as a child, he wandered in enemy territory. At six, calamity struck. In his youth, he returned to his country, then swept across the Six Kingdoms and united the realm.
The history books were perfectly clear.
She looked at the shivering six-year-old boy in front of her, carefully blowing on the medicine, then thought of the name that had once struck terror into the Six Kingdoms.
Fine. All she had to do was raise a child? She could do that.
All she had to do was run for her life? She could do that.
All she had to do was become the Empress Dowager someday? She could do that... Wait, the Empress Dowager?
Those six words came down on her like a bucket of ice water.
No, she had to figure out exactly which person from history she was.
Because besides that boy's name, the history books seemed to contain one more line:
The Empress Dowager died, and the realm was at peace.
Su Wanyi looked at the child sleeping in her arms, and her mind went blank.
On the surface, this is a funny rags-to-riches tale about “becoming Empress Dowager by raising a child.”
In truth, it's about a modern person who thinks she can defy fate, only to discover that from beginning to end, she was
Somewhat like Ying Zheng and Zhao Ji 🤔