The Brilliant Imperial Consort

A strategist's guidance turned her into a resourceful and capable woman, helped her become empress and rise to The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above all others, while also helping the man she loved gradually approach the center of power. But fate played a cruel joke on her. When the man she loved reached the pinnacle of power, her own sister's scheme nearly got her sent to the cold palace. When foreign enemies invaded, she volunteered to fight them, driven by resentment. Betrayed by a traitor, she was surrounded by enemy troops and died pierced by countless arrows.

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