The Stepmother Takes Charge: The Mad Empress Dowager Is Both Cunning and Chic

Name: The Stepmother Takes Charge: The Mad Empress Dowager Is Both Cunning and Chic
Author: Summer Never Ends

继母在上：疯批母后她茶又飒

by Summer Never Ends (长夏未央)

Status: Completed
Length: 336k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 2y ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Clear-headed heroine + playing dumb to outwit her enemies + dark-to-light + an overwhelming sense of fate] [Deeply calculating hero + seemingly innocent but secretly sinister + devoted exclusively to the heroine + grand ambitions] Everyone knows her as a femme fatale, a mad beauty, but no one knows why she became this way. They are laughable; she is tragic! The year she became Beiming’s new empress, the ruler of Beiming wiped out the Jing Kingdom, causing her entire maternal family to be slaughtered and forcing her to scrape by for the rest of her life. She lived only for revenge. In the hall, she lit incense and prayed to the gods. From then on, she asked for no shred of true affection, only the chance to avenge her great wrong. She never expected the emperor to dote on her without restraint. But once her revenge is complete, will she truly be happy? The truth is far crueler than she knows. Where can she go from here?

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