The good life Zhao Qingyi enjoyed after transmigrating fell apart on the day she confirmed that she had actually transmigrated to the final years of the Wu Dynasty. She looked on in despair at the fate awaiting her
Natural disasters and human calamities struck one after another, while the rickety regime busied itself tearing itself apart.
Enemies remained outside, and useless allies within. It was a doomed situation.
Zhao Qingyi didn't want to be crushed beneath the wheels of history, but as she looked around, she couldn't find a single person with broad shoulders to carry the load. So she gritted her teeth and took the burden of the thirteen provinces and two capitals upon herself.
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Special Interview for the Great Wu Weekly's Special Report on Princess Xingping's Birthday
Question: What kind of person is Her Highness the Princess to you?
Emperor: My elder sister is kind, beautiful, and clever, of course. She's the most important person in the world to me. My mother told me all I have to do is listen to her.
Trade Association Representative: I've never met anyone better at making money than Her Highness! She's the guardian of our wealth. May Her Highness live to be a hundred!
Imperial Clan Member: Could there really be such a greedy, heartless, and cunning woman in the world? Ancestors, if your spirits are watching over us, please help us! Someone here is trying to wipe out our family and seize our estate, sob, sob!
Senior Official A: Defying all convention, harboring wolfish ambitions, a calamity for the nation! Alas! Print that in the largest font you have! I'll pay for the ad space! No need to keep me anonymous!
Senior Official B: Her Highness has, after all, rendered great service. She hasn't even usurped the throne. What more could we ask for?
Senior Official C: If only she were a prince... Ah, getting old makes you dream.
Western Scholar: Her Highness's scientific talent is simply astonishing. She shouldn't keep wasting it as a regent princess! It's a crime!
First Navy Admiral: She's greedier than I am when it comes to the sea.
Anonymous Person Everyone Knows: The most faithless person under heaven... but she has her reasons. She doesn't want to be this way either.
Reader's guide:
1. Historical figures and events from different dynasties are mixed together for reference, and the story doesn't completely align with history. Readers who care about historical accuracy, proceed with caution.
2. There will definitely be romance. It may involve one or several characters falling for the heroine. Everything depends on how the story develops, including whether they end up together.
3. The heroine may behave in ways that seem at odds with virtue during political maneuvering. But she's not the type of tyrant who beheads people indiscriminately and doesn't care about human life. That doesn't mean she's weak.
4. She won't ascend the throne. The story follows a regent princess who rules from behind the scenes as the final boss.
5. The heroine is highly proactive. Everything she does is what she wants to do, and no one can force her. Some readers may feel she's making sacrifices, materially or emotionally, but from her perspective, it's all part of her own plans.
Theme: Keep at it long enough, and you'll get used to it
