In her previous life, Ye Yan was an assassin. After transmigrating, she was shoved into the water before she could even get her footing. When she woke up, she discovered she had become a 200-pound fat woman. From the original owner's memories, she learned that the girl had been born with the destiny of a phoenix, but someone had secretly planted a Gu worm inside her, stealing that destiny and turning her into an ignorant fool. Her engagement to a prince was then called off.
Two years later, her father and elder brother were betrayed and killed on the battlefield. Before long, the General's Manor was framed and sentenced to execution of the entire household, all because of that damned emperor. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he granted a general amnesty and changed the General's Manor's sentence from execution to having its women serve as prostitutes for generations and its men as slaves for generations. Her twin younger brother became a plaything in someone else's hands, and her personal maid was insulted and tortured to death because of her. Everyone else in the General's Manor was tortured to death as well. Ye Yan thought the new emperor was even worse than the old one, and that execution of the whole household would have been a quicker end. And this new emperor was none other than the original owner's fiancé, the Third Prince.
To fulfill the original owner's last wish, she put on a serious act every day. Though her acting was terrible and she was no good at scheming, she was pushed so far that the madness she'd struggled to suppress erupted. She pointed her sword at the damned emperor, slaughtered tens of thousands of enemy troops, built an army of a hundred thousand Nightspirit soldiers, chose a damned man to help her ascend the throne, and became an empress who was The Outcast, second only to one and above ten thousand others...
Read it in one sitting! The female lead would have been dead long ago for most people. The author has greatly created the heroine to act decisively and neatly! Like!
Good looking, I like the heroine