[Originally titled "The Uncrowned Minister"]
"Loyal minister or treacherous minister, neither is who I am. I am simply myself: Zhou Yuchen."
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During all the years Zhou Yuchen served as a eunuch, she was crafty and flattering, grabbing power and relying on her influence. Yet she never forgot her benefactor's teaching: Serve your ruler loyally. We must be truly loyal ministers.
What is so hard about being a loyal minister?
Isn't it just a matter of reading your ruler's intentions and getting things done before they even have to ask?
But before she could even declare her loyalty, the Great Liang was on the brink of collapse.
The land lay shattered, and the people wept.
The invaders swept in, and all the backbone the Great Liang had built up over a thousand years was reduced to heaps of jewels and silks stained with blood and tears,
flowing north to the barbarians like blood that could not be staunched.
When the emperor sent her to kneel and beg for peace,
Zhou Yuchen smiled. "His Majesty is a wise ruler... And a wise ruler would never truly seek peace. This must have some deeper meaning."
And so,
she fought the wars the emperor did not want to fight, and killed the people he did not want to kill!
As for her holding both military and political power, becoming the people's regent and prime minister, and keeping the emperor like a bird in her hand, it was all unavoidable. Her loyalty was as clear as the sun and moon!
Anyone who stopped her from being a loyal minister would find themselves unable to remain a person.
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Many years later, all those who had cursed or praised her were long dead, their souls extinguished and their bodies gone.
The literary giant who had once broken with her wrote one line about this history:
"Your bodies and names will both perish, yet the rivers flow on through the ages."
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Reader's Guide:
1. The central themes throughout are opposition to imperial rule and opposition to the idea that nobility is determined by blood.
2. The focus is on military and political intrigue. It's all war and politics, with little romance. The female lead resumes wearing women's clothes midway through the story, and the romance develops in the middle and later parts.
3. Happy ending. No dual regency. The female lead will neither marry nor have children. Her ultimate destination is a republic, in the manner of a rebel and traitor.
4. The female lead's mother and the main supporting characters are transmigrators, so some modern terms appear.
5. Set in a fictional dynasty, with echoes of real history and a structure modeled on the Ming, though not entirely. Please don't nitpick historical details.
Theme: Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to rule?!
It turns out that "Irregular updates this week" means no updates this week 🙏
Why hasn't it been updated in a week?????
Read xhs Amway, otherwise you would have missed this good article. I stayed up until four o'clock to watch it. A rare ancient military and political novel💪, where the female protagonist is in power and is female-friendly. What I like very much is that there are many female characters and they are all very three-dimensional. Also, this book does not "look down" on the people. I usually prefer to read about infrastructure and not so much about war (it feels boring), but I can read the war part of this book. Both sides are very clever in playing games with each other. I like Yu Chen (Ming Quan) very much. She is the heir trained by her mother and her spiritual successor, so Yuchen has a vision that transcends time and space and an unswerving will. She is compassionate and decisive. She is as cold as winter to her enemies and as warm as spring to her comrades. A woman who is like a female eagle, who wouldn't want to nestle in Yuchen's arms [hug the thigh][hug the thigh][hug the thigh]
Suddenly I discovered that you can order extra meals! So can I ask for a story about a literary talent, Concubine Shu, King Wei, and Xiao Kuang'er? [][]
After taking a closer look, I saw that the author had changed the title of the book... Never mind, Doting on
There aren't many emotional lines in the main text, can there be more extra lines?
Congratulations on the completion!!!!!!!
I want a lot of extras 😣 😣
The game - - vertical and horizontal - machine changes, after the fourth volume, there should be a fifth volume, right? Yes, yes, yes [glasses]
Really, with the sudden knife, Zhou Jiajun lost one person [Lie down]