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Transmigrated as a Ruthless Minister, the Empress Rejected Me!

share time: 2025-11-27 00:32:13

Lin Wan, a modern workplace elite, transmigrated into the youngest Hubu Shilang (Minister of Revenue) of the Great Chu Dynasty. She took down corrupt officials via "entrapment operations" and filled the empty treasury with "governing merchants with merchants"—her ruthlessness even made veteran ministers tremble. But when she presented her tax reform plan to Empress Chu Zhao, the latter threw the memorial aside coldly: "Lin Wan, you’re too ruthless and harsh. You don’t deserve to be my minister." Lin Wan resigned immediately and returned to Suzhou to open a restaurant. However, just half a month later, Chu Zhao showed up at her door in casual clothes—rebels surrounded the capital needing military funds, disaster relief funds were embezzled again, and the empress’s court was in chaos. Looking at the teary-eyed Chu Zhao begging her back, Lin Wan smiled holding a teacup: "Your Majesty, didn’t you think I was too ruthless? Why beg me now?" Chu Zhao clutched her sleeve, voice trembling: "Without you, I… I really can’t go on…"

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