Yuan Zhaoyang was the daughter of Daqi's emperor by his first wife, born in the common world before he ever became king. The man was faithless: once he claimed the throne, he cast aside his long-suffering wife and surrounded himself with beauties, forgetting that he had a child living among the people.
All the land beneath heaven belongs to Daqi. I am the emperor's only daughter. Why shouldn't I take the throne and rule this realm?