The Concubine Only Wanted to Win His Favor, but Ended Up Killing the Emperor and Starting a Rebellion

[A palace rivalry for favor early on, followed by a career and nation-building storyline.] [The heroine isn’t love-struck, and the prince is just one of the male leads.] [A strong female lead: the story of how a modern woman navigates the power struggles of ancient times.] Jiang Sui, a modern military doctor, transmigrated into the body of a huntress and became a concubine to a prince of the imperial family. She was a pitiful, powerless concubine with no backing, the kind who could be killed after just a few rounds of palace scheming. From the start, things looked bleak. Fortunately, Jiang Sui was beautiful, and the prince, old enough to be her father, treated her with considerable care. At first, Jiang Sui wanted to escape the prince’s manor and roam free, but she soon realized that the chaos of feudal society wasn’t something a woman could easily face alone. Jiang Sui came to understand that it was good to have a powerful patron, so she began climbing her way up. The women in the prince’s rear courtyard watched helplessly as Jiang Sui rose from concubine to favored consort, from favored consort to secondary consort, then from secondary consort to side consort, before leaping straight to the rank of female general and eventually becoming empress... The transformation was so swift that those women trembled like leaves before Jiang Sui, now empress, and begged her to spare their lives. Jiang Sui let each of them go. It was only because their man had once pleaded with her, asking, “Jiao’er, was there ever a place for me in your heart?”