Ode to the Phoenix: I'd Rather Be an Empress Than a Favorite Consort!

[Alternate Universe] [No Golden Finger] [No Male Lead] [No Fighting Among Women] [No Romance] [Not a Typical Power Fantasy, a Traditional Palace Intrigue Novel] [Not a Typical Villainess, with a Clear Growth Arc] [Ensemble Cast]

Everyone said that Shen Guojiu was blessed with good fortune. Every one of his daughters was beautiful, and they had all entered the palace and become empresses, enjoying the emperor's boundless favor and standing above all but one, The Outcast.

But the court was treacherous, and women were but faint reflections in this era. One man held their lives and deaths in his hands, and their love and hatred as well.

Shen Yingying had known since childhood that staying alive took every bit of strength she could muster.

Living with dignity took every last ounce of it.

For a woman to live with dignity, she had to fight for it.

Fight against others, against Heaven, against the earth.

After fighting for half her life, she finally realized that the greatest obstacle in her way was this era, not these men.

Rather than barely scraping by in this era, she would do better to forge a new one with her own hands!