This book tells the story of Jiang Yan, the eldest daughter of the Tang dynasty's Minister of Revenue. After enduring a series of tragedies in her previous life, including the early death of her birth mother, her father's remarriage, and being bullied to death by noble-born young women, she is reborn five years in the past. From then on, she casts off her former timid, helpless nature and defies the constraints of an age when women are forbidden to hold office. Fighting back, she gradually rises to become a respected female official at court.
