The good news: Zhou Huining is reborn, her maternal family has not yet been wiped out, and she is still the apple of the "Xishan Lin clan's" eye.
The bad news: Her father is about to be impeached for "colluding with the enemy," and she is about to be branded a "harbinger of disaster" and locked away for life.
As a weak, helpless bookworm, is the best outcome for her to die a little more skillfully this time?
Yet...
In the first year after her rebirth, she deceives the greatest general of Great Qi with a lie, and he clings to her like a lifeline, crying as he does;
In the third year, she turns the Sage's blade against the great clans, seizing power from noble sons, aristocrats, and princes;
In the fifth year, she breaks through the Sage's deadly trap and the great clans' ambush. Not only does she save her entire maternal family, she even puts a blade to... the Sage's throat?
Zhou Huining: What? I'm this powerful?
I just keep remembering those stories I heard as a child.
What kind of poison was in those stories?!
*
The great schemer Lin Chengqi would sometimes weave his dark thoughts and all his strategies for overthrowing the world into stories, then tell them to his great-granddaughter Zhou Huining.
After all, children are silly and don't understand a thing.
In his final moments, he felt a little regret.
He had taught the child to be a little strange.
But she stayed home all day. She wouldn't scare anyone.
Right?
Zhou Huining: No. You can't keep your coffin lid shut anymore.
She broke open the world ruled by this man and carved the name "Zhou Huining" into a stone stele, to be remembered for all time.
Political scheming prodigy, shameless charmer x loyal puppy, pure on the outside and dark within
Reader's Guide:
1. This isn't serious political intrigue. The government system and dynasty are only loosely based on anything real. Everything is for face-slapping and fun, with the occasional silly moment. (The domestic scheming in Chapter One is just a false impression.)
2. A female-led story. Romance takes up less than a third of the book and follows a wholesome, grade-school romance route. The heroine becomes a powerful minister by the end.
3. The heroine will always be awesome, always the best, always the strongest. Every character in the book, including the hero, will become a target of her face-slapping.
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Coming soon: Road Survival: Hands Off the Little Boss's Cargo
[Blurb]
Good news: The System has invited Lu Rong, a country girl and little boss, into a survival game, promising her a brand-new white semi-truck.
Bad news: It's only a virtual image, and she owes the System 300,000.
After signing up for Quickdog Instant Loans, Lu Rong is saddled with 300,000 survival coins in debt and gets a truck that's little more than scrap metal.
A roadside monster looks up and bites its window frame clean off.
She quickly pulls a length of wire from the corpse of a drill-toothed rat, tying shut the swaying truck door and securing her future home.
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In this world overrun by monsters, where even the roads can vanish, trucks are the only fortresses people have.
Every survivor is pushing themselves to the limit, terrified that if they slow down for even a second, monsters will tear them apart.
The only pleasure in their exhausting lives is betting with people on the forum about when the junk truck ranked dead last, No. 18888, will be chewed into scraps by monsters.
"If it survives the annual catastrophe, I'll eat my words."
"..."
Then the annual catastrophe arrived, and the System announcements suddenly flooded the screen.
"Congratulations to the owner of truck No. 18888 for the first kill of the 'Plague Elephant'!"
"Congratulations to truck No. 18888 for completing the classified hidden transport mission with the lowest possible configuration!"
"..."
Every player woke up in shock, then watched helplessly as truck No. 18888 shot to the top of the rankings!
Wait, wasn't this supposed to be the apocalypse? Why are you having the time of your life?
*
That night, someone saw an astonishing truck on the road.
Compared to the sleek trucks upgraded with official System materials, it had wheel hubs wrapped in scrap wire and a body covered in dirty tarps... It looked like it could fall apart at any moment.
Yet wave after wave of monsters charged it, only to be doused with used motor oil and dissolved in sulfuric acid before they could even reach the truck.
Meanwhile, a little girl who looked like she belonged to the streets was carefully cutting open the corpses of monsters everyone else avoided, using a battered woodcutter's axe, then tossing them into the truck bed.
The "junk" piled in the truck bed was actually top-grade material that would drive every survivor wild!
As everyone stood there dumbfounded, she looked up and smiled. "Don't tell me you're thinking of stealing it."
In an instant, the battered axe became a colossal blade that fell from the sky.
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After that night, a new rule appeared on the survivors' forum:
"Better to brave an S+ danger zone than mess with the junk truck!"
Meanwhile, Lu Rong drove this truck, cobbled together from scrap and monster bones, toward the heart of the apocalypse. It carried all her belongings, and a sense of belonging she had never known before.
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Theme: Girls should be strong and self-reliant.
There is a gap between superiority and inferiority, and there is an even greater gap between men and women. She stands in a higher position than them and does the same thing as them. Just because she is a woman, they can give her guidance at will.
Oh my god, author, you are so good at writing. I haven't seen a heroine who suits my style like this for a long time. She has such a strong sense of power. I'm waiting for the day when you publish a physical book 🎆🤩🤩
The first volume has been completed. The second volume has entered the final stage, but due to three-dimensional reasons (mainly my own work and family illness), the update needs to be suspended for a period of time. After I stopped, I came up with a lot of ideas that I wanted to implement, and I also found some shortcomings in the second volume and wanted to make some changes, but I had no choice but to run out of time. Because I have a slight dyslexia, I often write things in a mess and then rearrange them into articles. My thinking in writing is messy. In order to adjust it into an order that everyone can understand, I often have to repeatedly revise three or four versions. Basically, I do version management for every chapter. I have to revise a chapter up to 12 times. This means that if I write each chapter for one or two hours, it may take three or four hours to revise it. In fact, I have been trying my best to find time to write recently, but unfortunately I don't have enough time to organize it, so I can't post it for everyone to see. What I can guarantee is that this novel will be completed this year, and will be updated once my work and family situation stabilizes (expected to be May-June, but I can't be 100% sure). In the meantime, some revisions may be made to the second volume to better promote the climax of this volume. Really sorry for any inconvenience caused. But you don't have to worry that I will run away and give up. After all, I came back to write after a five-year hiatus (I don't mean to have a five-year hiatus this time 😭). I want to see Zhou Huining's ending more than anyone else. I wish you all good luck in life and happy Women's Day!!
Did the author abandon the article? 😂 He didn't ask for leave and didn't leave a message.
This is the first time I have seen a book with such good conceptual writing and storyline.
Seeing this, I oooooh! I really like it, don't be fooled by Qiuqiu
Baby, it's very well written. Just follow your feelings. I believe in you and support you.
Sisters and sisters, waiting for your update
Oh my God, the author, you are really, really, really great. You have written the justice of self-respect and self-love in a unique way. I really like this word.
I'm back! After working overtime for a few days and experimenting, I finally have time to catch up!