In Great Shang, I Support Shang Tang

[A swaggering, tough-as-nails, bking rich girl vs. a powerful high priest]

[A political intrigue and road-trip story]

Some said Zhao Ying's life had reached its end.

A wealthy young woman who had entered the selection to become a goddess died suddenly, and Zhao Ying was the prime suspect because she was always eager to stick her neck out.

The nobles of the royal capital wanted to eliminate their rivals, and Zhao Ying was bound to be among the first targeted because she loved the limelight.

The powerful wanted to make an example of someone, and a tribal outsider like Zhao Ying would be the first to suffer.

Who would have thought that within six months, the common people of her fief would be sincerely grateful to Miss Zhao Ying?

A year later, none of the other candidates for goddess dared provoke her.

When she returned from her travels, the tribes on both banks of the Yangtze had all pledged their allegiance, and everyone called her General Red Kite.

She controlled the bronze mines, was richer than a nation, and had glory aplenty.

The young masters, princes, generals, and priests were all at her feet.

Everyone in the Shang Kingdom knew her name. They called her:

The Goddess Chosen by Heaven, the Founding Priestess.

Zhao Ying: I guess I was born to be a big boss, a great general, and a lady of wealth and fortune.

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Reader's guide:

1. Plot-driven. The heroine is the strongest character in the entire story, both physically and mentally. She does not go into business; she uses her strength and intelligence to gain power.

2. The heroine is used to winning people over, and never lets a slight go unavenged. She's a spoiled rich girl, raised in the lap of luxury.

3. All nine major male supporting characters, including those who return later, will have appeared by around 500,000 words. There are also over a dozen minor male supporting characters who do not return.

4. Romance is not the focus. Most of the male and female supporting characters have their own things to do. Nine men have romantic storylines with the heroine; all but the male lead have one-sided feelings.

5. Set against the Shang Dynasty, with elements such as temples, rituals, and shamans. The author loves historical research, so readers are welcome to discuss it.

Two upcoming stories. Whichever gets more follows will be written first.

Upcoming story 1: "From Couch Potato to Court Physician"

Xu Lingyin was worrying about finding a job after graduating from university when she transmigrated into the past and became an apprentice pharmacist in the Imperial Pharmacy.

What incredible luck! She had landed a government job!

She thought she could steadily climb the ranks, starting at the bottom and working her way into management. Little did she know she was on a road with no return.

The emperor was in poor health. Families who sent their children into the palace to become pharmacy apprentices were either poor medical households with no other choice or medical families who didn't know what they were doing.

Every path to advancement was a dead end:

The Imperial Medical Bureau was caught in a power struggle, the Imperial Pharmacy was a casualty of factional strife, and the Imperial Medical Academy was controlled by the powerful.

Question: I passed the civil service exam, but now I spend every day taking the blame and being worked like a beast of burden. There's no way out. What should I do?

Xu Lingyin: If that's the case, then the emperor's trusted ministers kneeling on the nine-tiered steps should be replaced too.

Upcoming story 2: "From Immortal's Tool to Beloved by All"

Bai Shijiu is a puppet.

She fears immortals, is hardworking and obedient, and devotes herself to protecting her master. She has three wishes in life: first, to have a face of her own; second, to become an ordinary person like any mortal; and third, to do her utmost to fulfill the wishes of the immortal she serves.

But none of the immortals she serves thinks highly of her. None of them cares whether she lives or dies.

She admires Sect Leader Yuan, but Yuan Jianchun always looks at her with disgust and indifference. To him, she's only useful as a substitute to die in place of the daughter born to his white moonlight.

She trusts Sect Leader Gui, but when Gui Changlin discovers that she's passed herself off as a daughter of a noble house, he's ready to make her pay for the sect's crime with her life.

Only Young Master Song treats her well, but Song Zhangxuan is merely looking through her face at the woman he loved ten thousand years ago.

Since none of them cares whether she lives or dies, Bai Shijiu can only fake her death and flee into seclusion.

When she really does "die," the immortals go mad. They want nothing more than to give their own lives to bring her back.

Yuan Jianchun: She's my wine. How could I let her end up in your cup?

Gui Chenglin: I'm more important to you than he is now, aren't I?

Song Zhangxuan: It's wonderful that you're alive. It's wonderful that you're not her.

Twenty years later, they give her their lives, all their worldly possessions, and the artifacts that let them ascend to godhood.

When a male immortal appears before Bai Shijiu again, she instinctively tries to hide, but this time she can't get away.

The male immortal gazes at her with burning intensity, but his hands are trembling.

Theme: You are your own strongest self