The Wise Empress Is Reborn: As a Villainess, I Seize Power and Go on a Killing Spree

Liu Mingwu, empress of Great Chu, was born into a powerful clan and was the legitimate eldest daughter of the Duke of Dingguo's household.

When she entered the Eastern Palace, everyone praised her as the Crown Princess. When she was crowned empress, she became the dazzling first empress.

She upheld the virtues expected of a wife and struggled to remain gracious and dignified. She treated the concubines as sisters, personally raised the eldest son born to a concubine whose mother had died young, and remained loyal and gentle toward the emperor, who had another woman in his heart...

Yet all she got in return was a miscarriage caused by an attack, the loss of her palace authority, the destruction of her family, and having her fortune siphoned away by the System!

One favored consort after another could walk all over her, and even the eldest prince refused to acknowledge her as his adoptive mother.

In the end, after taking a blade meant for the emperor, she grew weaker and weaker, languished in bed, and died in despair.

Fortunately, Heaven had eyes: Liu Mingwu was reborn.

In this life, she wanted none of that kindness and gentleness!

If multiple transmigrated women relied on the System, she would take the System for herself.

If the consorts fought over the emperor out of devotion, she would leave him to them.

If the eldest prince repaid kindness with ingratitude, she would spoil the ungrateful wretch rotten.

She would be the villain, sit back and watch them fight, grow cold and heartless, and seize power.

Then she would trample everyone who had ever harmed her underfoot!

P.S.:

1. There is no romance with the emperor. He is an absolute scumbag.

2. This is a fictional setting with some invented places. Don't overanalyze the worldbuilding.