After eighteen years of hardship in a cold kiln, enduring hunger and freezing weather, Wang Baochuan's body had been utterly worn down. When Xue Pinggui returned, she became The Outcast Empress for only eighteen days before passing away.
By chance, her soul made a trip to the twenty-first century. Only then did she learn that women could decide for themselves whom to marry and what future to pursue. Women also had the right and ability to seek freedom and careers. Even after leaving their families and husbands, they could make a living rather than having to forage for wild greens to survive. They deserved a world far wider than the one they had been given.
Whether Heaven pitied her suffering or was angered by her lack of resolve, it gave her a chance to live again.
She loved freedom, too, and envied women like Dai Zhan: passionate and radiant, able to build a career wherever they pleased instead of being confined to their quarters for their entire lives.
She knew her era was different, but... she was destined to marry the future emperor. Since she knew that in advance, wasn't that a golden finger? She might not be able to change the times, but surely she could secure some benefits for herself, her sisters, and ordinary people outside the circles of royalty and nobility.
