A Concubine's Guide to Taking the Throne (Worldbuilding)

These days, transmigrating into someone else's concubine, mistress, or even chambermaid is all the rage. When Wei Lingchuan opened her eyes and figured out who she was, she thought she was about to embark on a domestic battle that might not be thrilling but would at least be exciting. Unfortunately, everyone in the marquis's household was as proper and wooden as a clay figurine. There seemed to be nothing for her, a concubine, to fight over. Nor was there some handsome, aloof marquis who, despite his courtyard full of wives and concubines, remained a pure-hearted thirty-something bachelor and fell into a passionate love-hate relationship with her. But her System had been activated. It would be such a waste not to fight for something! Wei Lingchuan gazed at the red-gold dragon throne in the distant capital and decided that was worth a lot more. Then let the fight begin~ Before you read: 1. Her golden finger is a System. 2. The setting is fictional, loosely inspired by the late Northern Song. Everything serves the plot, so please don't nitpick the history. Completed older novel "A Guide to Rebuilding Daxing [Infrastructure]": After transmigrating into a chaotic era with foreign nations joining forces to invade from overseas and powerful relatives and civil officials seizing power at home, she raises an army, drives out the invaders, and sets out to restore the nation. Nearing completion "The Fake Heiress Chooses to Serve the People" Shu Yu transmigrated into a book. She became a disposable fake heiress who barely appears in the story, yet is busy every single day. So what does she spend her days doing? As the most professional public-opinion crisis specialist in Country H, Shu Yu lists her daily duties: 1. Traveling all over the place to handle different public-opinion emergencies. 2. Cleaning up the mess after public-opinion crises go wrong. 3. Uncovering the hostile forces lurking behind them. Shu Yu feels the pressure. Feng Tang: My beloved boss, I have bad news. There's a new public-opinion crisis, and we're heading out on another overnight work trip! Shu Yu: ... So I'm here to serve the people. An old man once said, "The field of public opinion is right there. If you don't occupy it, the enemy will." Shu Yu knows her job is about far more than being an educational-content blogger. Coming next "The Imperial Justice Bureau Matron's Handbook" Blurb: The year Shang Qingqi arrived in Great Chu, she was kidnapped by a wealthy family and sent to the palace to be selected as a maid. She was 178 centimeters tall, large-framed, sturdy, and well-nourished. The head matron of the Imperial Justice Bureau's eyes lit up, and she made an exception for Shang Qingqi, bringing her into the bureau and dressing her hair as a matron who had just turned twenty-four. Once she joined the Imperial Justice Bureau, Matron Gao told her that if she worked there for fifteen years, she could petition for permission to leave the palace. By then, the great families would be fighting to hire her to oversee their households. With excellent career prospects, Shang Qingqi worked diligently and learned the professional skills expected of an Imperial Justice Bureau matron, until she saw the blood-soaked inner palace behind the red walls. Consorts dying for no reason, palace maids suddenly going mad, royal heirs dying young in supposed accidents. Everywhere in Great Chu's inner palace, schemes and calculations lurked. Caught in the whirlpool, she had no choice. From matron of the Imperial Justice Bureau to head of the Palace Administration Bureau, then to junior minister of the Court of Judicial Review. Shang Qingqi sets out on the path of an official. On the day she becomes Minister of Justice, Tang Qisong asks whether there's any wish she has yet to fulfill. Shang Qingqi answers him seriously: I want seven days of vacation. "There Was Once a Spark That Set the Plains Ablaze" Blurb: Meng Shuangxing was born in a chaotic era. Six states contended for supremacy. War raged everywhere. Ruined walls and scattered corpses covered the land. The year her parents died, they left her only a few old books. While reading through the classics and histories, Meng Shuangxing came across a very unusual book. Most of it had been destroyed. Only a few dozen pages remained, describing a world she had never seen. In that world, there were no emperors, kings, ministers, or generals. It was peaceful and stable. That world possessed everything the people of this land longed for. From then on, Meng Shuangxing set out to find the rest of the book. In the forests of Wu, she found a strangely designed tomb and several fragments of manuscripts inside. In a burned-out library in Yan, she found half of an illustrated book containing many blueprints she'd never seen before. In an unremarkable village in Qi, she met several old people who still remembered fragments of the past. Later, Meng Shuangxing learned that the people who had left these things behind shared a single name: transmigrators. Each of them had hoped to change something after coming to this world, and they had indeed brought about some changes. But in the end, they had all died at the hands of imperial power. From these pages, Meng Shuangxing understood a great deal. She decided to join her companions in doing something for this world, even if all they could offer was a tiny spark. Theme: Strive to change your own destiny