[Female-led story + romantic rivals competing for her + the world in chaos + two lives, one person + the heroine becomes emperor]
After dying of cancer, Lin Yuan opened her eyes again and found she had transmigrated.
She had become the daughter of a minor official in an alternate era, burdened with an ill-omened reputation, yet blessed with a doting father and brothers, as well as a fiancé admired by every noblewoman in Jian'an: Xiao Yu.
Averse to romance, she paid no mind to Xiao Yu’s invitations.
Late one night, Xiao Yu broke into her chambers, nearly giving Lin Yuan another heart attack and killing her all over again.
The young man accompanied his father on an expedition. Unable to resist, he came to see her before leaving. His sincere, ardent feelings left Lin Yuan deeply uneasy.
Xiao Yu would return one day. After all, everyone knew how formidable the Xiao family army was.
Lin Yuan began preparing to escape: money, travel papers under another identity, a death-feigning drug, and the Xie family trading caravan to help her lie low.
It was not easy, but at last she was close to succeeding.
Then the political situation shifted. The entire Xiao family was executed, and she became a hostage, inevitably dragged into the political maelstrom.
Only when everything had settled did Lin Yuan discover that the frail puppet emperor was not incompetent, and that she had been caught in a web of intrigue from the very beginning.
Standing at the highest point in the imperial palace, she eagerly awaited the next day’s empress-making ceremony.
She had arranged everything. After tomorrow, she would be free.
But then!
On the day of her coronation as empress, the young general who had long been declared dead on the battlefield came back to life and launched a rebellion…
