The Empress Dowager Is My Mom, His Highness Is Our Workhorse

About the story

University student Su Tao and her executive mother are in a plane crash while on vacation and unexpectedly travel to ancient times. Her mother hits the jackpot, becoming a powerful empress dowager who rules from behind the curtain, while unlucky Su Tao becomes a low-ranking palace maid scrubbing chamber pots. To reunite with her mother, Su Tao outwits the volatile Emperor Xiao Yan, slips into the inner palace and finally makes contact with her at Cining Palace. With a covetous regent at court and spies throughout the harem, mother and daughter team up for a hilarious workplace overhaul. Step by step, they manipulate the unhinged emperor into becoming a salaried CEO working nine to nine, six days a week, and secure their hold over the realm together.