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The Empress, Don't Panic—I Have a Few (Million) Tricks Up My Sleeve

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Empress Jiang Youning’s reign starts with a nightmare: the treasury is empty, a powerful minister is forcing her to abdicate with a military tally, and border rebels vow to storm the capital. All officials either feign ignorance or flee—except Shen Yanzhi, a minor minister exiled to the imperial kitchen to bake sugar cakes. Licking sugar off his fingers, he saunters over: “Empress, don’t panic—I have a plan.” But his “plans” are pure chaos: sending the minister to guard the late emperor’s mausoleum “to show filial piety,” turning the palace back alley into a night market to raise funds, even sending an opera troupe to the rebel camp to sing “homesick ballads.” Miraculously, these absurd tricks work! Jiang Youning grows suspicious: how can this slovenly man, who can’t even wear his official robe straight, seem to have predicted every move? And why does his gaze—so warm, so familiar—remind her of the little beggar who gave her his last osmanthus cake on a snowy night ten years ago?

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