[Three Kingdoms] A Guide to Ascending the Throne as Lord in Troubled Times

[Three Kingdoms chaos + political intrigue + conquest + collecting famous strategists and generals + the heroine becomes an empress! + CP: Guo Jia + feeding a group of sickly strategists with good food]

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Liu Yu was a mischievous child.

She fought crickets and walked dogs, climbed onto roofs to pull off the tiles, yanked her tutor's beard, and drew turtles in her textbooks.

In short, she never did a single thing she was supposed to. She was a hopeless case.

Her father hired seven or eight tutors in a row, and she led every one of them around by the nose. Even the last tutor, the most experienced and patient of them all, resigned in anger.

Before leaving, he cursed her as a rotten piece of wood that could never be carved.

Liu Yu didn't take it to heart.

As she put it:

In her previous life, she'd worked herself to the bone, grinding her way to a master's degree in history. She'd toiled day and night, but barely earned a few coins.

In the end, she died young from overwork.

After finally being reborn into a wealthy family, naturally she wanted to live it up and make up for all those lost years, with interest.

Bring glory to the family and uphold propriety?

Not interested.

Cultivate yourself, keep your family in order, govern the state, and bring peace to the world?

Not studying that.

Her worried old father lost handfuls of hair, but he kept urging Yu'er to study hard.

He continued doing so until he fell gravely ill.

Before his death, the towering old man grasped Liu Yu's hand with trembling fingers.

"My child, it's fine if you live a carefree, ordinary life. As long as you have a lifetime of peace and happiness, my wish will be fulfilled."

Not long after her father died, her mother also fell gravely ill and passed away.

Liu Yu knelt for a long time before her parents' memorial tablets.

The boy who had never grown up seemed to have become an adult overnight.

As an unfilial child, shouldn't she at least protect her parents' homeland, so their spirits could rest undisturbed?

And so Liu Yu resolutely embarked on a path unlike any before it.

She simply hadn't expected that, "without meaning to," her fame would grow and her territory would expand.

She fought the powerful and bought official posts.

She recruited able generals and sought out strategists.

She built waterworks and expanded farmland.

The Three Kingdoms stood in opposition, and warlords contended for supremacy.

She crossed swords with Cao Cao and fought Liu Bei for territory.

From a puppet governor to a female warlord whose name shook the world,

she entered the contest for the Central Plains as a woman...

Years later, the land was peaceful and the seas were calm.

Liu Yu had ascended the throne as emperor. When asked how she had accomplished such great feats,

Liu Yu thought for a moment, then answered,

"At first..."

"I only wanted to protect a small patch of my homeland."

My name is Liu Yu, courtesy name Zhaoming.

Zhaoming, meaning bright as the sun and moon.

A Three Kingdoms-era conquest story, with a heroine who becomes empress.

Check out my upcoming novel: What Do Guo Jia and His Lord Do After They Both Transmigrate into a Chaotic Era?

Liu Yu and Guo Jia transmigrate into a strange dynasty in a time of chaos, join forces, and ascend the throne as empress and consort. Political intrigue and conquest, with a serious tone.

Reader's guide:

1. The blurb covers an early part of the timeline. The heroine is already mature when the story opens, working in government and fighting powerful clans as she enters the era of conquest. Her childhood background will be filled in gradually.

PS: The heroine is ambitious, but her ambitions grow over time.

2. This is not a pure wish-fulfillment story. Building up a power base takes careful planning, step by step. I will do my best not to make the other historical factions act stupidly.

The heroine isn't purely kindhearted. The story's events do not reflect the author's values. The setting requires her to disguise herself as a man early on, but as soon as her power base is secure, she'll immediately resume her female identity and compete for supremacy as a woman!

3.

The story takes place in a parallel world based on the Three Kingdoms era.

The historical background draws on Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han, and Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, with some changes for the sake of the plot. Readers unfamiliar with the history can enjoy it too. The author will briefly introduce the Three Kingdoms figures who appear.

4. Since she will become empress, the heroine will have a biological heir later in the story.

5. There is a romance. The CP is Guo Fengxiao.

The heroine is clever and powerful. Of course he'll fall in love with her!

6. I haven't thought of anything else yet. I'll add more if I do. This is a self-indulgent passion project. If it's not for you, feel free to leave.

If you're interested, please bookmark the story! Give the author a little motivation. Thanks, dears, mwah!

Theme: Continue the lost teachings of the sages and bring peace to all generations.