The empire’s “tyrant empress” wakes up as three-year-old Chu Tian Tian—too small to lift a scepter, yet already condemned by rumor and palace politics. Her only lifeline is the Whitewash System: it docks her for every “monster” story and pays out only when she fixes what the adults broke, turning redemption into brutal, measurable tasks.
Dragged awake before dawn by Ni Qing Xiang and drilled by Qu Tian, Chu Tian Tian turns cuteness into a battering ram. She sends Li Xiao Xiao and Li Rui to audit “new schools” and uncovers mountain-gully sites, drafty shacks, and ledgers fat with stolen grain. Every decree she pushes costs someone money, and they strike back with locust-scare rumors, price gouging, and finally knives in the dark—because a toddler who can collapse a patronage network is more dangerous than any adult rival. To keep her throne—and her life—she has to win hearts faster than the conspiracy can tighten. Expect weaponized toddler politics, laugh-out-loud payback, and an empire rewritten one righteous tantrum at a time.
