[Strong female lead + scheming + focused on building her career, not a saint]
Jiang Yi is known throughout the palace as the most wicked empress in history.
She is the late emperor's only child, and people across the land believe she could become Pingjing's first empress regnant.
Jiang Yi once had hopes of her own, only for her father's final edict to knock them all down.
Someone else is to become the new emperor, while her own father has offered her up to him as his empress.
What's more, that man isn't even surnamed Jiang. He has no right to usurp the Jiang family's throne!
Everyone tells her that, since she is empress, she must serve the emperor well, be gentle and free of jealousy, and keep the imperial harem harmonious.
But she has no intention of becoming a woman who spends her days lamenting in the harem, begging for a little affection.
Jiang Yi is determined to turn the harem upside down.
She leads the power struggles, schemes to harm the emperor's beloved, pretends to be ill to avoid sharing his bed, and strikes the imperial consorts' children, nearly leaving the emperor without an heir.
She even helps the man she loves depose her husband and take the throne.
But she never expected that, in return, he would turn his blade against her...
