My Childhood Friend Only Has Eyes for the Transfer Student

Stories with a Powerful Female Lead and Political Intrigue, Where Nobody Acts Like an Idiot!!!

I'd like to read something similar to The Empress Dowager Reborn: A Phoenix's Plot for the World. The female lead is stunningly beautiful, a cool and aloof beauty. The writing is nuanced and the story has a grand scope, with palace and household intrigue, struggles over the heir's position, brotherly bonds, the officialdom and battlefield, court scheming, and love for one's country and family...