A Woman’s Portrait: Splendid and Glorious

[Strong Female Lead + Self-Rescue + Scheming] When Su Lin learned that her husband had been keeping a mistress behind her back, their illegitimate child was nearly five years old. Her husband was swayed by his mistress's whispered entreaties: poison Su Lin and frame the Su family for treason. Once Su Lin was dead and the Su family ruined, her husband would gain immeasurable wealth and status, his mistress could become his legal wife, and his illegitimate child could be welcomed into the family. They would enjoy high office and generous salaries, free from all worry. … Su Lin entered the game herself and lured her enemies deeper in, bringing her plan to fruition: she divorced her worthless husband, had his mistress reduced to a lowly registered status, and left him stripped of everything, his official career destroyed, a life on his conscience, and exile to a freezing wasteland ahead of him… - At ten years old, Zhao Yu went to war. Over the next decade, she won glorious victories and expanded the borders of Great Yan. She was the female war god acclaimed by all the people and the Defender-General personally appointed by the emperor. Once the realm was secure, she was summoned back to the capital, stripped of her military authority, and placed under the watch of secret agents. The emperor saw her as a thorn in his side, and she became a princess with an illustrious name but no real power. … The world refuses to acknowledge women's excellence. It tries to conceal their talents and erase their achievements, reducing them to insignificant specks of dust in the long river of history. Zhao Yu: Then I will spend my life enduring, lying low, and plotting. I will break their tyranny, monopoly, and oppression, and carve out a way forward for countless women, so they can live freely, openly, and as they please, blooming into magnificent, dazzling flowers in the long river of history. No one will be able to conceal their glorious splendor. - The wind carried by women running forward will brush past every woman whose mind is awakening. At the edge of the cliff, it will reach out and save them, rescuing women as a whole.