Overworked office drone Li Wei wakes up in the late Zhenguan era, transmigrated into Wu Meiniang, who is about to become a former palace lady at Ganye Temple.
Looking at the face in the mirror, stunning enough to topple kingdoms but destined to spend her life beside the Buddha, she smacks her bald head in anguish... No, her three thousand strands of worry.
"My boss bullied me with corporate nonsense, and now history's doing it too? The KPIs for going from palace lady to empress are harder than going public!"
Other transmigrators come to fight in the palace. Li Wei has come to reject the rat race.
Her goal is simple: cling to future emperor Li Zhi's leg, land a senior-manager job as his favorite consort, achieve financial freedom, and retire early to lie flat.
So when the timid beauty from history is supposed to make her appearance, she instead hands Li Zhi a PowerPoint presentation: "The Guanzhong Elite's Threat to Imperial Authority and a Decentralized Solution."
Li Zhi: "Meiniang, this is marvelous!"
Wu Zetian: "Your Majesty, this is the career plan I prepared for you."
While Empress Wang and Consort Xiao were still fighting over the spotlight at a banquet, she used project management to organize the Fengshan rites down to the last detail and cut the budget by thirty percent.
The look in Li Zhi's eyes as he watched her shifted from admiration to astonishment, then dependence.
But when he began suffering sudden, severe headaches and blurred vision, Li Wei knew the historical script hadn't changed.
But she was determined to rewrite it.
What do they mean, "a hen crowing at dawn"? She wanted a dragon and phoenix ruling in harmony!
She found Sun Simiao and, drawing on modern medical knowledge, quietly introduced a treatment combining acupuncture, herbal medicine, and rehabilitation exercises.
Years later, when Li Zhi stood with her atop the Luoyang Palace, vigorous and clear-minded, looking down at the splendid realm they had built together,
he took her hand and asked with a smile, "Empress, now that my 'wind disease' is cured, can you still hold on to your place as co-ruler?"
Wu Zetian looked back, her gaze bright and burning as it had been all those years ago. "Your Majesty, didn't you say long ago that these ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains belonged to 'us'?"
PS:
· Wu Zetian x Li Zhi
· Transmigration to the Tang Dynasty
· Fictional story, not historically accurate
· She only meant to be a virtuous empress who helped a wise ruler. Instead, she cured the emperor, and the two of them worked themselves into a legendary pair of rulers.
Theme: The best love means walking side by side; the strongest power is shared and wielded together.
