The Empress Dowager Was Driven to Tears by Her Love-Struck, Foolish Emperor, So She Went to Cultivate Immortality

Jiang Yao, a single woman who spent her days lying flat at home and binge-watching shows, transmigrated one day into an empress dowager in a fictional dynasty. She thought her turn had finally come to enjoy unimaginable wealth and privilege. Who could have guessed... She became the empress dowager of the current dynasty. Not the kind of young stepmother empress dowager whose emperor is twelve and whose own age is seventeen, with generals and prime ministers joining her harem. No, she was a real empress dowager in her sixties, responsible for ruling the realm, and she took office the moment she arrived. Her late husband, the former emperor, had pursued immortality and the Dao, taken too many pills, and dropped dead. The young emperor she had adopted was a hopeless romantic. Dragging her ailing body and wheezing with every breath, Jiang Yao wanted to die all over again. When would she ever finish reviewing this mountain of memorials? Her vision went dark, and a book about drawing qi into the body fell from the roof. Oh, damn, she had opened the wrong map. This was a world of cultivation. She swiftly tore down the corrupt ministers, stabilized the court, brought her grandson into the palace, then packed her bags and went off to cultivate...