Zhaoyue transmigrated, and from the start she was given an acre and a half of land. She silently tightened her grip on her hoe. Fine, a farming story. She'd accept her lot.
So she worked hard, going from a modern person who couldn't tell one grain from another to a Great Zhou farmer who could just about support herself.
She thought she'd spend the rest of her life bent over the fields, and that would be that.
Then disasters, both natural and man-made, came one after another. Only then did she learn what it meant for corpses to litter the land and the people to live in misery.
A girl from her village raised the banner of rebellion, her eyes bright with fire.
If she was going to die either way, Zhaoyue steeled herself: rebellion it was!
She tightened her grip on her sickle. Got it! The Chen Sheng and Wu Guang story! She was in!
The rebel army grew stronger and stronger, until it claimed territory of its own.
In her third year as Marquis of Bowu, the System, silent for more than twenty years, finally came online, trembling.
System: "Your mission is to help the male lead ascend the throne and find love. Once you complete it, you can go home."
She fell silent for a long while after hearing the mission.
At last, she twirled her pen and smiled a little sheepishly. "About the male lead... I chopped off his head half a month ago. It's still hanging in the marketplace, so it might have started to stink... Could you bring him back to life?"
The System immediately let out a string of ear-piercing beeps.
After restarting, the System weakly contacted its superiors. When it came back, it had a new message:
"Well... you could help the female lead ascend the throne instead."
But... Zhaoyue looked at the women coming and going beneath her tent:
A dashing general, a fallen princess of the previous dynasty, and even the village girl who had first raised the banner of rebellion...
Only then did she remember an important question:
This ridiculous book was a harem novel.
So...
Who was the female lead?
The blurb is tentative and may change.
Theme: Cherish the good life we have now.
