A Maid's Rise to Power in a Time of Chaos

[Fragile female lead + rugged warlord]

Song Shu, a former meteorologist, transmigrates into a book as a refugee in a chaotic age. To survive, she “sells herself to pay for her father’s burial” and sneaks into the residence of Pei Fang, the local militia commander.

She only wants to find the female lead and cling to her for a chance to survive.

She hasn’t found the female lead yet when she’s falsely accused and thrown in jail.

To stay alive, she offers Lord Pei a strategy and helps him wipe out a bandit stronghold in one move.

From then on, she goes from being a little kitchen maid to one of the capable servants at the lord’s side.

But that isn’t what she wants. All she really wants is to stay with the powerful female lead, eat her fill, and wait for death.

The female lead shakes her head and tells her, “No!”

“The lord’s great ambitions are not yet fulfilled. How can you let your guard down, Miss Song?”

So when the lord asks for advice, the female lead kicks Song Shu right out in front of everyone.

Lord Pei raises an eyebrow. “Oh? What wise counsel do you have, Lady Song?”

Song Shu: ...

And so, in these remote hills and foul waters, she finds a kindred spirit: two stars rising in the wilderness.

The warlords of this lawless age have met their most desperate opponent, a remarkable woman whose floor and ceiling are both beyond their reach.

Song Shu goes from a laid-back maid who occasionally offers advice to a workhorse doing the jobs of eight people.

They call it being the lord’s most valued confidante and strategist.

Song Shu spits. “That sounds great, but how about a raise?”

The stingy lord quietly takes out a key to his private treasury. “It’s all yours. Just stop complaining.”

Upcoming novel: My Lord Has Grown Up

A one-legged father who’s a level-eight lathe operator and a mute mother who survived the apocalypse.

A reborn first wife versus a rival who fights tooth and nail to win her place.

Reborn subordinates and political enemies.

Everyone gets a second chance to raise the sickly, short-lived beloved lord they lost in their previous lives.

Synopsis:

In Li Family Village, Xicheng County, the Li family’s one-legged carpenter has a chubby baby girl. Like her hunter mother, the girl is mute, and all she does all day is babble and drool.

The village doctor says the child might be an idiot.

Then the silly girl finds a scholar on the mountain, clutching her and sobbing as he mutters incomprehensible nonsense about “I was born before you, yet you’re already old.”

Thinking he’s the fool, the silly girl tosses him back onto the mountain.

The next day, the silly girl blows up her family’s outhouse. Afraid her parents will take turns beating her, she decides to run away. But an old man blocks the doorway, pleading, “Young friend, help me out.”

The silly girl’s eyes dart around. She throws him into the outhouse, then slips away to play with her child-bridegroom, giving herself an alibi.

That night, the old man mutters like he’s possessed, “This isn’t right. It wasn’t like this in my dream!”

On the third day, a wealthy family arrives in the village. Their young master presses a large bag of silver into the silly girl’s hands. “Remember, I’m your child-bridegroom.”

Huh?

But she already has a child-bridegroom!

[In her previous life, the heroine had a histrionic personality. She said whatever people wanted to hear and acted the part so well that this time, people see right through her.]

[In her previous life, she and her first husband, her child-bridegroom, had conflicting interests and an unhappy marriage. After he died of illness, the male lead took his place.]

[She wasn’t stupid or mute as a child. She was simply imitating her mother because she thought it was cool.]

Theme: Choose a worthy lord and save a world in chaos.