The Scheming Beauty Climbs to Power in the Inner Palace

[Female-led wish fulfillment + High-IQ Palace Intrigue + The Heroine Schemes Against Everyone + The Heroine Seduces Many Men + Supporting Characters Stay Smart + The Heroine Is a Beautiful, Unhinged Woman]

Important things must be said three times: the heroine is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!

When Jiang Xun was ten, she fell gravely ill. No medicine could cure her, and she nearly died. Just then, a bald monk and a mad Daoist arrived at the Jiang family's country residence. They cured her, and the Daoist told her fortune, saying she had the fate of a phoenix and was destined to become empress.

The bald monk also wrote a prophecy for her.

It read: “A loyal heart and crimson blood become a rainbow; the phoenix rises from the ashes and dances across the sky. Star-carved fragrant wood turns to smoke; reborn through fire, she leaves mortal ties behind.”

Jiang Xun survived her ordeal, and she firmly believed she was a phoenix, born to be empress.

So Jiang Xun stepped over countless corpses to walk this road to glory.

She killed her sister and murdered her father. She was faithless and cruel. She harmed the imperial consorts and slaughtered the royal heirs. She stopped at nothing, ruthless and merciless.

The histories later judged Empress Zhaochun: “Empress Jiang was jealous by nature and caused the deaths of countless imperial consorts. She defiled the inner palace and led the emperor astray. Yet the emperor doted on her. When he died, the crown prince ascended the throne and honored Empress Jiang as empress dowager.”

A few brief lines captured Jiang Xun's life, both accurately and inaccurately.

Jiang Xun never tried to silence the historians, because she wanted future generations to know that she, Jiang Xun, was a true poison empress, ruthless and cruel.

P.S. Reader's guide: This is a pure villainess story!!! A villainess story!!! The heroine will not be redeemed, will not be redeemed; she is simply evil!!!