[Song Dynasty] Qin Shi Huang Teaches Me to Be an Empress

[Everyone has different tastes. I recommend buying one chapter at a time, so don't rush.]

[My Brother Is Ying Zheng, Though I Don't Know It is currently being serialized]

Novel blurb

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This novel is also known as Save Me, Ancestors! and All My Teachers Are Legendary Ancestors.

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Zhao Ling'an transmigrates, and the bad news is that she's in the Northern Song Dynasty, with Zhao Gou as her father. The good news is that she has a golden finger: the ability to summon historical figures.

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As the Jin army marches south and surrounds Kaifeng Prefecture.

[System 007 at your service. Would you like to use a Summoning Talisman to summon someone?]

Zhao Ling'an chooses: Yes.

[Congratulations! You have successfully summoned the special-rank First Emperor, Ying Zheng.]

Zhao Ling'an is overjoyed.

But the System didn't tell her that to use the summoned First Emperor Ying Zheng, she'd have to persuade him in a dream and get his consent!

Useless System!!!

Zhao Ling'an frets for ages, then finally remembers the oldest and most effective trick in the book: pretending to be a ghost.

"I am the King of the Underworld..."

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Three months later, the summoning expires.

The Jin army makes several probes, then returns in force. Zhao Gou, her mother, and Zhao Ling'an are all captured by Jin soldiers as hostages.

[System 007 at your service. Would you like to use a Summoning Talisman to summon someone?]

Zhao Ling'an, in tears: Yes.

[Congratulations! You have successfully summoned the special-rank Zhu Di.]

Now here's the problem.

She could use a thousand years of historical developments to persuade the First Emperor to take an interest, but how could she persuade Zhu Di from a later age to come to the Song Dynasty?

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Three months later, the summoning expires again.

The humiliation of Jingkang arrives.

In tears, she summons someone for the third time.

[Congratulations! You have successfully summoned the special-rank Li Shimin.]

At the time, Li Shimin is inconsolable over the loss of Empress Zhangsun. As soon as he hears he can bring someone with him, he asks, "Then can I bring my Guanyin Maid along?"

"I... suppose so."

The weepy Second Feng is easy enough to coax over.

But he seems to have taken her for his own daughter. Before leaving, he clutches her hand and keeps crying: "Ling, you must keep coming to find your father in your dreams. I'll help you win this whole realm!"

Zhao Ling'an: ...

There's really no need to go that far.

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Three months, then three more.

The ministers are driven mad by their emperor's constant change of heart. Are they fighting or fleeing? Can he give them a straight answer?

The Jin soldiers are losing it too. Are you really a coward, or are you faking it?

Ling'an is at her wits' end as well. Damn it, every time we win, we have to hand it back. I can't endure this humiliation anymore. Zhao Gou, step down and let me be empress!!!

Zhao Ling'an: "Ancestors, teach me the Way of Kings!"

Ying Zheng: "A one-character poem: Law!"

Zhu Di: "A one-character poem: Ruthlessness!"

Li Shimin: "A one-character poem: Fight!"

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Later, on the battlefield, there's a valiant god of war who cries "Amitabha, the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord, Guanyin Bodhisattva" as he cuts down enemy heads like stalks of grain. In court, there's an empress who clasps Qin Hui's hands and cries, "I can't bear to lose you, Chancellor!" Then she turns around, draws her sword, and kills him on the spot, declaring, "The chancellor is equal to the common people before the law."

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Second Feng tells Empress Zhangsun through his tears, "Ling'an is just like me."

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[Reader's Guide]

1. Other historical figures to be decided;

2. Parallel universe, parallel universe, parallel universe. Important things are said three times;

3. Summoning is mutually beneficial, and the benefits for the Qin Dynasty will also be described (for example, the Four Great Inventions, later generations' imperial examination system, and the lessons and improvements drawn from how later generations evaluate them. These are exactly the good things our Zheng-ge needs), so Zheng-ge and Second Feng will return;

4. The heroine has no love interest before conquering the realm. She'll pursue romance after winning it and have a daughter to inherit the throne. Second Feng and Guanyin Maid's relationship will be depicted. Although the heroine will eventually become empress, she grows into the role gradually. She's genuinely weak at first, and her teachers are all the ancestors;

5. This book only summons male ancestors. There's another book in my upcoming works that only summons female ancestors. Choose whichever suits your taste;

6. Thank you for taking the time to read. Enjoy!

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Upcoming novel: My Brother Is Ying Zheng, Though I Don't Know It

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[The heroine and Ying Zheng are bound to the same System. They need to use family-affection points to unlock its functions. In the end, one rules as emperor in the Eastern Continent, while the other reigns as empress in the Western Continent. The siblings each rule one side, and won't fight each other in their lifetimes. After all, productivity is limited, which makes it easy to preserve their sibling bond.]

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Zhao Wenxiao wakes up in the Pre-Qin era, transmigrated into the body of a girl just over ten years old.

Thanks for asking. I'm in the Americas, and there isn't even a single extra savage around.

The good news is that, like most transmigrators, she has a System.

The bad news is that it's called the Family-Tie Conquest System. During a certain period in the daytime, she can press a button to summon a gloomy young man to her side.

According to the System, he's her older brother.

She looks at the sword in his hand, taller than she is, and at his expression, which says he wants to stab her to death. She manages a determined smile.

Just do your best.

What else can you do about brothers?

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Ying Zheng has been a little annoyed lately.

A bracelet that only he can see has appeared on his wrist for no apparent reason. It calls itself a System and says that he has a younger sister with the same mother, who's been living away from home. As their relationship grows closer, they can unlock functions that will benefit his Great Qin.

As king, he's tempted. But the moment he thinks of Zhao Ji, he clenches his back teeth.

When the System activates, he finds himself in an unfamiliar wilderness. He sees a skinny little girl staring at him with wariness and feral intensity, as if she wants to bite off a piece of him. Then he knows:

The person before him must be his younger sister.

They have the same phoenix eyes, and the same ambition.

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At first, neither of them can stand the other.

But they both take a liking to the System's high-yield crop seeds, agricultural tool improvement manuals, loom designs, and barefoot-doctor medical guides...

Zhao Wenxiao and Ying Zheng want every one of them.

And so the siblings go from being reluctant at first, to compromising for mutual gain, to facing life and death together and caring about each other (while verbally tearing each other apart).

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Many years after the siblings meet.

Ying Zheng, who has never summoned Zhao Wenxiao, summons her for the first time when someone tries to assassinate him.

"Your Majesty, take the sword!"

As soon as the courtier says this, a strangely dressed woman abruptly appears in the hall. She spins, draws the sword from Ying Zheng's hand, and thrusts it at the assassin's throat.

As Zhao Wenxiao flicks the blood from her sword with a twist of her wrist, the assassin crashes to the ground.

Her phoenix eyes lift slightly, and her icy words ring out: "Anyone who harms my brother must die."

She turns back.

Her smile doesn't reach her eyes. "Your Majesty?"

You son of a, didn't you say your name was Qin Wenzheng, a poor little thing nobody loved, not even your parents?!

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Later, Ying Zheng rules as emperor in the Eastern Continent, and Zhao Wenxiao reigns as empress in the Western Continent.

The realm is almost divided in two, with both halves in the hands of the siblings.

A trusted aide at Zhao Wenxiao's side worries, "Your Majesty, what if the prince..."

He doesn't dare say the word "rebel."

Wang Ben at Ying Zheng's side has the same concern.

Zhao Wenxiao and Ying Zheng, however, look eager for a challenge: "Then let him come."

A worthy opponent is a joy in itself.

What does she (he) have to fear?

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[Reader's Guide]

1. Both siblings are proud, confident, ambitious people who refuse to submit. They'll bite at each other early on, but not later, and they won't end up fighting. Productivity is limited, so they won't allow it in their lifetimes;

2. The heroine is unbeatable in combat, while Ying Zheng is unmatched at governing. Neither side will be diminished. They'll learn from each other as worthy rivals. The heroine's story starts from nothing as she begins claiming territory. Since the Americas have few people at that time, she'll bring people in from elsewhere (so people from the West in the same era will appear too!);

3. At heart, this is a parallel-world wish-fulfillment story that makes up for past regrets. I'll try to keep it historically accurate, but won't be constrained by it. Important things are said three times: parallel universe! Parallel universe! Parallel universe!

More upcoming novels in my author page

1. I Thought the Ancestors Were Immortals: The heroine has no intention of showing off and always thinks she's on a film set

2. [Tang] Wu Zetian Teaches a Socially Anxious Girl to Become Empress: Summoning all the female ancestors to teach a socially anxious girl to become empress

3. The First Emperor of Qin and Emperor Taizong of Tang Keep Fighting to Work at My Shop: A hilarious, sharp-tongued comedy

Theme: When there's something you want to do, move forward without hesitation.