This is a story about “the person who least wanted to change the world, changing it in the end.”
Shen Zhixian's greatest wish never changed:
Find a steady job, take on as little responsibility as possible, clock out on time, and live a peaceful life until retirement.
But from a town-level civil servant to a maid in the Wu household, from a palace maid to Wu Zetian's confidante, and from a prophet of the spiritual qi revival to the architect of an empire's institutions, she discovered again and again:
If she truly wanted a peaceful life, she first had to deal with the people causing trouble.
After dealing with one person, she discovered there was a whole group behind them.
After dealing with a whole group, she discovered there was an entire system behind them.
After changing the system, she discovered the problem came from the whole era.
And so, someone who only wanted to lie flat was forced to start transforming the world.
Theme: The rebirth of a vast and glorious China, too.
