One-line summary: From a hereditary servant to the Great Zhou dynasty's first female official
1. The eldest daughter of the Yongning Earl's household has been blessed with extraordinary luck.
She's ambitious and wants to become the most powerful woman in the world: the Empress Dowager!
Jiang Shuyi shakes her head and says softly, "My lady, the most powerful woman in the world is an empress..."
2. Jiang Shuyi has just celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday. In the time it takes to blow out a candle, she becomes a hereditary servant in the Yongning Earl's household of the Great Zhou dynasty.
The masters of the Yongning Marquis's household can be ranked into one, two, and three.
Hereditary servants can be sorted into six, seven, eight, and nine tiers, too.
Unfortunately, the family she transmigrates into
hasn't managed to attach itself to a powerful patron, and anyone can take a swipe at them.
A mother who died young, a gambling-addict father, a brother who drinks himself into a stupor, and her, left in pieces.
When she arrives,
her gambling-addict father is preparing to send her to bring good luck to the dying son of the stable master.
Wanting to die, just in case that lets her transmigrate back?
Jiang Shuyi looks at her gambling-addict father's utterly self-righteous face, the way he treats her like an object to be disposed of,
and suddenly thinks the road to the underworld seems a little lonely.
She'll have to take a few others along as company.
Notes:
1. Inspired by the story of Shangguan Wan'er judging poems from a raised pavilion and weighing the worth of scholars across the realm.
2. The heroine's career takes center stage. The male lead is a background character, and she has a golden finger.
3. The story is fictional, modeled on the Tang dynasty, with a mountain of original worldbuilding. Please don't nitpick historical details.
Theme: Women should stand on their own
