I Transmigrated as Qin Shi Huang's Female Advisor, and He Can Read My Mind

[April 27, 2025: I talked to the editor. A book is automatically released from paywall after three months without updates, but I don't think I can go that long without updating (there's no perfect solution unless I update regularly, and I can't do that). Let's make a deal: if you want a refund, leave a comment. Once I've finished the story and gathered my wits, I'll go through the comments and refund you one by one. Also, this is my last book, so please bear with me a little longer. I'm really not cut out for this. Three years of work, plus nearly two million words of discarded drafts, and my total earnings are in the hundreds... If I get to the root of it, my writing really is all over the place and makes little sense, and I keep dropping updates. Sigh, ]

[April 26, 2025: Please don't buy any more paid chapters. Tomorrow I'll ask my editor to remove the paywall (I will finish it, I just need a little time to get back to updating).]

Content warnings:

Inspired by the relationships between figures from the Qin dynasty.

References both official and unofficial histories, as well as fictionalized elements.

The whole story mixes colloquial and classical Chinese.

[Please read this as an alternate-history web novel by an unsuccessful writer, and feel free to correct any inaccuracies.]

Blurb updated September 17, 2024:

Qin Zhu transmigrates to the Qin dynasty.

Other transmigrators know how to make paper, aren't afraid to castrate pigs, and can make salt...

She can't carry anything heavy, can't lift a thing, and can't even tell the five grains apart when farming.

She has plenty of book learning, but no ability to put it to practical use.

Her only advantage is that she's loved Qin history since childhood.

But... that history was written by people who came later.

For example:

Books all say Ying Zheng was a tyrant who ruled with brutality, but in reality, he was an ambitious, forward-thinking workaholic with ideas ahead of his time;

For another, Li Si, the Minister of Justice among the civil officials and military ministers, is a scheming old fox with a refined appetite;

Wang Wan, the resourceful chancellor, is a laid-back slacker in his day-to-day life;

His fellow chancellor, Kui Zhuang, unexpectedly lets his wife call the shots;

Dun Ruo, born among common folk, outspoken, and unwilling to kneel before the First Emperor, is a rare beauty who gets away with everything on his looks;

The Meng family, led by the Interior Minister Meng Tian, is a family of mighty generals, and the youngest brother really is a devoted romantic;

The Wang family, who conquered most of the six states, are all injured or disabled... How could history have so many lucky people?

The Hundred Schools of Thought, princes and princesses, foreign enemies and condemned ministers, even the commoners supposedly crushed by forced labor, all have far more energy than Qin Zhu.

The claim that "transmigrators can't change history" keeps looking more and more true.

Bamboo-splint toilet sticks, raw fish slices... She wants to run away so badly, but she can't...

The blasted System has also come online and wants her to "do one good deed a day" to earn goodness points for getting home. What a joke!

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Ying Zheng: "Now that I've completed the Fengshan Sacrifice, it's time to put conquering the Baiyue in the south, defeating the Xiongnu in the north, settling the frontier, and expanding into the southwest on the agenda... It's just that this Qin girl, who talks like a pack of wolves and tigers, really is..."

Old blurb:

"The first day of maintaining world peace"

On a street of crumbling ruins, shells rained from the sky.

Qin Zhu, helping a child draw water, suddenly saw a flash of light...

When she opened her eyes again, she had traveled back to the Qin dynasty and become the only female adviser to the First Emperor of Qin.

Qin Zhu: ...6!

Theme: Blend the wisdom of the past and present to promote social development.