The Legitimate Daughter's Hidden Estate: My Best Friend Helps Me Rise to Become Empress

She was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister's household, born to wealth and privilege. But she lost her mother at a young age, received no affection from her family, and was cruelly sent to live on a farm, where she suffered every hardship imaginable, until she met an untimely death. Then the wheels of fate began to turn. Her closest friend returned, carrying all her resentment and grievances. Taking on her friend's appearance, she entered a thrilling battle within the household against a scheming concubine-turned-stepmother and a fake-sweet younger sister. She not only seized the family fortune, but also rose to prominence amid the treacherous struggles of the imperial court. She drove the wicked woman and her hypocritical daughter to their deaths, turned her fortunes around, and ultimately ascended to the throne as empress, ruling the court and writing a legend of her own.