Empress Xiao Reborn: Clearing Her Name After a Thousand Years of Slander

Synopsis: The Great Sui fell. History says Empress Xiao was a femme fatale, but she spent half her life offering counsel, gathered corpses in Jiangdu, wandered in exile beyond the frontier, and finally lived out her days in the Tang. What did she have to do with the infamy heaped upon her for a thousand years?

A thousand years later, she was reborn with all her memories, returning to the age of fourteen. Western Liang still existed, the Great Sui had yet to fall into chaos, and she had not yet married Yang Guang.

She remembered how everyone's story ended: who would betray whom and when, and which coup would cost Yang Guang his life. She could not save the dynasty, stop the Xiaoguo Army's rebellion, or erase the stain that history would write down stroke by stroke.

But this time, she would no longer let others drag her around. She wrote down those names in advance, and carved out an escape route for herself amid the chaos. She dealt with every faction, no longer a passive chess piece, but someone who knew all their hidden cards.

She could not change the fall of the Sui dynasty, but she could change how she appeared in the history books. She would be neither a femme fatale nor a pawn. She would be the one who held tight to her own fate in a world at war.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.