After Going Viral on Livestream, the History-Blind Girl Rules by Recruiting People

(Non-derivative) Friendship-focused, serious drama, a gently slow burn, happy ending

You don’t need any historical knowledge to read this. Historical details are woven into the story.

Blurb

“Who did you pick?”

“Qiu Yi, database entry No. 8137. Tags: kind, highly empathetic, historically clueless.”

“Sending someone like that into the Three Kingdoms? She won’t last three days!”

Seventeen-year-old Qiu Yi transmigrates to the final years of the Eastern Han dynasty. Her mission is to help any ruler of her choice unify the land.

Qiu Yi, making a bewildered face: “Me?”

Still completely lost, she witnesses the massacre at Yangcheng and is so terrified her legs give out. A bracelet that appears out of nowhere jabs painfully into her wrist.

Acting on instinct, Qiu Yi follows the survivors. The comments immediately call her “reckless” and complain that “instead of doing the mission, all she does is pick up female NPCs.”

She helps the women of Yangcheng escape, risks her life to save Su He, who is plotting revenge, and helps Wen Ling escape a marriage that would make her a bargaining chip for Lu Bu.

Her mother-in-law, sisters, and others she meets during the move of the capital… When she looks back, why are there more and more people?

Qiu Yi doesn’t mind at all: “It’s only truly good when things are good for you, good for me, and good for everyone!”

But later, friends she meets by chance become devoted to her, helping heal the wounds buried deep in her heart. She knows that when she’s hurting, she’ll never have to be alone again.

Because she has countless hands reaching out behind her.

Su He: “If I hadn’t met you, even if I’d somehow survived back then, I would have become a cold-blooded avenger.”

Wen Ling: “Having a friend like you, with a bond as strong as sworn sisters, makes it all worthwhile.”

As Qiu Yi picks up more and more female NPCs, the comments change from “Why hasn’t she found a ruler yet?” to “Let her do what she wants.”

Comments: “I’m stunned. Just how many dear friends does Qiu Yi have? How does she keep finding all these people?”

Qiu Yi isn’t looking for anyone in particular. She just wants to find everyone a safe place, a “Peach Blossom Spring,” amid the chaos. But how can the troubled times leave her in peace?

She decides to raise an army and fight for a place of her own.

Strategists, generals, soldiers, scholars, doctors, county magistrates…

Qiu Yi suddenly realizes that from the moment she followed the survivors after the Yangcheng massacre, this path had been inevitable.

A coming-of-age story with a first-person female protagonist. It spans many years, from age seventeen to thirty. The protagonist grows tremendously by the end of the first volume.

The protagonist is kind and never turns evil, though she can be a little obsessive. The plot is closely tied to her personality and choices.

The friendship plot and the main story are equally important. The protagonist feels deeply and can’t hold back her emotions. There is no romance.

The story focuses on the bonds between female characters.

The comments are unfriendly at first. Few famous Three Kingdoms figures appear, and some are mentioned only by name. More famous figures appear later, but the main focus remains on the protagonist and her friends. The comments become divided.

Set in the late Eastern Han dynasty. The modern world the protagonist comes from is fictional, in a parallel timeline. The story has both ancient and modern sections and is entirely fictional.

Theme: Plant flowers amid the ruins.