I Am the Empress of Great Xia: All Lands Under the Sun and Moon Belong to Xia

[Strong female lead, no romance + scheming empress + decisive and ruthless + secret identities + medical skills + revenge] In her previous life, she lived through an apocalypse at war with zombies... Empress Wu Zetian was her idol. She dreamed that one day she would become an empress, wielding power over all beneath heaven by day and reclining in the arms of beautiful men by night. Heaven took pity on her. In this life, she was born into the family of the renowned guardian general of Xitang, a fictional dynasty. A history enthusiast in her previous life, she drew on her knowledge of the history of various dynasties... and the development of this fictional era. At the age of six, she had already sentenced the Hua family to death... Her grandfather and father were far too loyal to the emperor... They lived by the creed that a ruler’s command was absolute, even if it meant death. And so it began! The six-year-old girl racked her little brain, swearing to find a way to save the Hua family from disaster. Moving forward... as subjects, the Hua family had nowhere left to rise. Retreating... meant plunging into an abyss. After thinking it over and over... There seemed to be only one path before the little girl. Hehehe. If I become empress... the Hua family’s crisis will resolve itself. Ten years later, when she was sixteen... The Third Princess of Nanli came to Xitang to marry, and the two countries signed a hundred-year non-aggression pact. Just one month later... all kinds of news reached the imperial palace in the capital. Nanli had secretly joined forces with Beizhen, planning to divide Xitang between them. Nanli had stationed 400,000 elite troops at Yinmen Pass. An imperial decree ordered the Hua family’s Second, Third, Sixth, and Seventh Sons to head to the border. Thus, only the elderly, women, and children remained at the Hua family residence in the capital... Before Yinmen Pass, a pitch-black signal flare blossomed beneath the blue sky. One flare after another followed, stretching from the border all the way to the capital. The empress’s journey, and the awakening of women everywhere, began here...