Just How Many Pies Did Strategist Gu Promise? (Transmigrate into a Book)

Gu Jin, an artificial intelligence major, rides a wave of opportunity and has just signed a high-paying job contract. Her life is about to take off and start anew, but on her first day at work, she gets into a car accident. Everything goes black, and she transmigrates into a book, into an ancient age of chaos so steeped in resentment it could crush a ghost.

She transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter in a sweet romance novel about political schemes.

From the start, it's a hell-level difficulty setting.

The rebel army will breach the city in two days. Her cold-blooded biological father doesn't care about his concubine-born children at all and takes only a few of his most beautiful children with him. She is among them, but... six months later, the ninth sister who was taken away is given to someone as a plaything, her fate unknown. A year later, her father offers her up to a powerful noble as a caged songbird. Even her four-year-old younger brother, born to the same mother, meets a tragic end because he is too good-looking. In the end, the siblings both die miserably.

She only read half the novel, even though it was complete... If she'd known she would transmigrate one day, she would have memorized the whole thing. In her current situation, what's the difference between that and an unfinished ending?

Still, half the book is useful. She grabs her younger brother and makes a run for it that very night, disguising herself as a boy and wandering from place to place. Then she meets someone who seems smart but turns out to have poor judgment. According to the book, he is a brilliant strategist with great ambition, yet somehow he chooses the wrong boss to serve. In the end, his family is destroyed and his entire clan wiped out.

One of them is cannon fodder, and the other is a villain...

Gu Jin hits it off with him at once and decides he should start his own venture while she serves as his strategist. Maybe they can all survive, and she might even land a secure government job.

So she immediately analyzes the political situation, exposes the true face of his boss, and even maps out a path for him to conquer the realm and become emperor.

Gu Jin: "My lord, I see in you the makings of a wise ruler. How about we turn things around and become the top dogs ourselves?"

Xie Wenyu: ...

He actually took the sickly young man's advice and raised an army to strike out on his own.

Also known as: "Has the Strategist Set a Trap Today?"

"Did You Go to Work in the Chaotic Age Today?"

"Has the Lord Corrected His Mistakes Today?"

"I Transmigrated into a Book as Cannon Fodder, but I Refuse a Tragic Ending"

"A Jin May Not Look Mighty, but She's a Force to Be Reckoned With"

Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.