What kind of empress starts by declaring that women can hold office? Adult women and widows alike may establish separate households. Those who sell freeborn people, drown infants, or wrongfully kill their wives and children will be put to forced labor. And she's even bringing back the women's imperial examinations!
Has she gone mad? Has she forgotten this is a feudal, male-dominated society?
Oh, she's not mad. She's just got a cheat!
But can simply having a cheat really turn this feudal, male-dominated society upside down and save women from misery?
Not necessarily!
More likely, she'll get in over her head and end up shattered, body and soul!
