How the Great Qin Empress Was Made

The Great Qin at the start, but the First Emperor is dead. What now?

The ambitious light in Princess Chang'an Ying Lue's eyes, so much like the First Emperor's, gleams with ambition. If the time is not right, she will lie low and watch those fools make names for themselves. When the time comes, she will act. Why shouldn't she rule the world?

General Meng Tian, who commands more than three hundred thousand troops guarding Shang Commandery, has a dream. He dreams that he is sentenced to death for disloyalty. When he wakes, an edict ordering his execution has indeed arrived. Yet in the dark, sunless prison of Yangzhou, a glimmer of light appears, one absent from his nightmare.

"If the Neishi had accomplished nothing, would any of you still be standing here, pontificating about his merits and failings?"

Meng Tian thought that the nightmare in Yangzhou had already written the ending of their separation by life and death. He did not know that, after the fall of the state and the destruction of her family, someone else would rewrite her fate...

Xiang Yu once encountered the phoenix reborn from the ashes amid the raging flames of Xianyang Palace. Neither the crumbling halls nor the blazing fire could match even a fraction of her radiance. Though she had the blood of the Ying Qin imperial house and should have been reduced to ruins along with the towering palace by his hand, he secretly rewrote her fate of dying for her country. In the end, the world would romanticize the tale of the Hegemon King and his consort by the Wu River, unaware that behind the celebrated story, the two of them spent their lives at odds.

The nightmare of Xiang Yu's suicide by the Wu River awoke the Western Chu Hegemon from his beautiful dream. His double pupils suddenly shifted. Since Heaven had given him another chance to turn the tables, he would have the beauty, and he would have the world!

Zhang Jia, who had taken her elder brother Zhang Liang's name to seek revenge, learned that the person she had considered a kindred spirit at the deer-calling pavilion on the Yi Bridge was a Qin princess. She resolutely cut ties with Ying Lue, who had come after her beneath the moon, slashing through her robe. She, Zhang Zifang, swore to the moon that even if she spent her whole life achieving nothing, she would never serve Qin.

Yet Ying Lue watched her retreating figure, certain that one day she would come back to her. After all, women forced to wear men's crowns were natural allies.

Reader's note: This is a traditional historical political-intrigue story, with no sky screen and no System. Although it is a Qin-dynasty transmigration story, the transmigrator is an insignificant supporting character who lies flatter than a salted fish.

Theme: A woman with both ambition and ability can become emperor