I’ll Never Be a Wage Slave Again: I’m Destined to Be Empress

[Empress + modern court setting + palace intrigue + innocent flower turns dark + everyone is evil]

With no education or family connections, Tang Wan started working after graduating from high school. Pure-hearted and naive, she was taken advantage of everywhere she went, cheated on by men and betrayed by her best friend. With her mother sick and no money in her pockets, she finally steeled herself and went abroad to the Tuotuo Empire to keep working. She started out as a cleaner at a general’s manor, then stumbled into the imperial palace and passed herself off as Crown Princess Gao Yun, who looked just like her. She thought she could enjoy a life of luxury in peace, only to find herself desired by the “Imperial Uncle” who had usurped the throne. Was she going to become his consort?

Then she would fight her way up, advancing at every turn. Men can’t be trusted. Even as empress, I’d still be working for the emperor. I don’t want that! I want to be empress in my own right!

Poor girl → foreign country working girl → posing as the crown princess → Noble Lady Tang → Jieyu Wan → Consort Wan → Noble Consort Wan → Imperial Noble Consort → Empress → regicide → empress in her own right