I Transmigrated as Fusu’s Daughter and Clung to the First Emperor

(Completed! Currently revising the story~~~~)

Blurb:

Just after transmigrating to the Great Qin, Zhao Ziyu finds herself with nothing at all and assumes she's landed in a farming story.

Later, she discovers that her family is quite wealthy, but the food is terrible. She realizes she's in a gourmet story.

Then Zhao Ziyu activates a publicity System, which tells her that as long as she does a good job promoting things, she can get whatever she wants.

Zhao Ziyu gets it: she's in a Mary Sue story.

Later, her gentle and refined father tells her, "Kiddo, get your things together. We're going home."

What do you mean, going home? Isn't this already her home?

Before she can figure it out, her imposing and dignified grandfather tells her, "Grandpa is preparing to perform the Fengshan sacrifice."

So if her grandfather is Ying Zheng and her biological father is Fusu, then who is she?

Ying Zheng/Fusu: The little princess of Great Qin, Ying Ziyu!

Got it. Now she really gets it. Turns out she was meant to lie flat and take it easy.

Wonderful! The former 996 wage slave can finally lie flat for good.

But then Zhao Ziyu suddenly realizes something is wrong. If her grandfather is Ying Zheng and her biological father is Fusu, doesn't that mean her good days are numbered?

Great Qin is about to fall. As a princess, doesn't she have a bleak future?

To preserve her wealthy lifestyle, she has to pull herself together and avert the coming tragedy.

So her real role is the hardest one of all: saving the world!

Zhao Ziyu: I thought I could lie flat, but it turns out I'm a workhorse stuck on the clock 24/7.

Fusu: Don't be sad, kiddo. You're going to be the future Third Emperor of Qin.

Ying Ziyu: Can't I avoid being called the Third Emperor of Qin? It sounds awful.

Fusu: No, because your dad is the Second Emperor of Qin.

Two upcoming stories:

① Coming first: What Are the Chances I Can End the An Lushan Rebellion After Reincarnating as a Descendant of Li Shimin?

Good news: Li Jinyue has become a descendant of her idol, Li Shimin.

Bad news: her idol has been dead for ages.

Even worse news: she's not descended from Li Zhi, but from the deposed crown prince Li Chengqian. Her family has fallen into decline and is now just an ordinary wealthy family.

Of course, that's not even the worst of it. She was born in the nineteenth year of the Kaiyuan era, and twenty-five years later she'll have to face the An Lushan Rebellion. And, as luck would have it, her family is bound to get caught up in it.

With all these factors in play, little Li Jinyue has no choice but to think about her future: should she rebel, should she rebel, or should she rebel? Looks like there's only one option.

So when Li Jinyue meets up with her "guards" and a group of "loyal ministers" in Chang'an, they actually try to get her to put down her weapons and become a docile subject.

They won't even give her real power, just the honorary title of Grand Princess, which sounds nice.

Are they trying to fob her off like a beggar?

But the group insists, addressing Li Jinyue's father: "Back then, Crown Prince Chengqian rebelled, and Emperor Taizong demoted him to a commoner. General, you are no longer a member of the imperial house of Great Tang, so how can you expect to rise any further?

"Even if you raised your troops to defend the country in its hour of crisis, which was truly righteous, the crisis has now passed. The emperor is dead, but the crown prince still lives. He is kind and magnanimous, a true image of a wise ruler.

"Why not accept the offer and become a regional military governor? That would preserve your good name in the history books, while the young lady could be granted the title of Grand Princess. What's not to like? Why keep pressing us and making things difficult for everyone?"

Li Jinyue thinks these people haven't had enough of getting beaten by An Lushan, and they're still naive.

What a joke. She was the one who sent the emperor to be killed by An Lushan. She'd spent all this time scheming to claim the empire of Great Tang. Does she look like a bodhisattva who would hand it over now?

So she steps past her father and takes the seat of honor, showing them who really calls the shots.

"If you are willing to acknowledge our ancestor, Crown Prince Chengqian, then my father can be the second Emperor Guangwu. If you insist on your position, my father has no objection to becoming the second Gaozu. Think carefully: will you serve Great Tang, or the dynasty that came before it?"

Li Jinyue delivers the words casually, while her poor old father stands off to the side, silently enduring everything with tears streaming down his face.

That rebellious daughter! He was forced into this. He'd been perfectly happy as a wealthy landowner and had no desire to rebel. He didn't want to be Gaozu or Emperor Guangwu. He just wanted to go home and farm.

② What Are the Chances I Can Unify the World After Becoming Prince of Lanling's Younger Sister?

Born in the dark age of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, Gao Changning is unlucky.

But at least her family is part of the Northern Qi imperial clan, and her brother is the famous Prince of Lanling, Gao Changgong. At the very least, she won't end up in a cooking pot.

Then again, the Gao family of Northern Qi is notorious in history as a dynasty of lunatics. Every emperor carries the lunatic gene, and Gao Changning even suspects the Gao ancestors are to blame for her own unstable mental state.

But even without the lunatic gene, Gao Changning thinks she'd still go mad. This rotten era, this rotten family... It would be stranger if she didn't.

Still, she doesn't actually think she's crazy. Sure, she led troops to force her way into the palace, tortured the emperor to death, and executed all the officials, but she's clearly a good girl.

Well, why wouldn't she be? That's what her sister-in-law thinks, anyway.

Changning. When Gao Changgong gave his younger sister that name, he hoped she would enjoy a long, peaceful life. He fought on the battlefield to earn merit and give his wife, children, and sister a safe place to live.

But somehow, his little sister seems to have gone bad. The ruler Gao Changgong returns victorious to pay his respects to is actually his own sister?!

Can someone explain this? Where did his education go wrong?

Unable to bear seeing her brother completely lose it, Gao Changning comforts him. "Since the Western Jin Dynasty, emperors have taken turns, and next year it'll be our family's turn. We've seen plenty of rulers kill their ministers, and more than a few ministers kill their rulers. One day the emperor kills his father, the next a younger brother kills his elder brother. In an age of utter moral chaos, what's wrong with one more female emperor?"

Is this really about having a female emperor? Gao Changgong protests, "That doesn't justify leading troops to force your way into the palace and pointing at the emperor on the throne, calling him an impostor! How is that any different from Zhao Gao in the Qin Dynasty pointing at a deer and calling it a horse?"

She's not even pretending anymore. How is the history book supposed to write this up? Gao Changgong, the most virtuous member of the Northern Qi imperial clan, can't even bear to imagine it.

But Gao Changning, whose morals are at rock bottom, doesn't care. "I'm already a lunatic. Why would I care about any of that? Let them write whatever they want!"

Theme: Righting a few old wrongs that still hurt