(This is a female-led story, dedicated to the awakening of women.)
They say that one should put down the pen and take up arms. Chao Ge did the opposite: she laid down her weapons and picked up the pen. Her father, a first-rank general and the Marquis of Weiyuan personally appointed by the late emperor, had been framed and exiled to the wilderness. For three generations, her family was forbidden from joining the army.
When Chao Ge woke up, she was in a cold, gloomy torture chamber. A scumbag stood before her, demanding to break off their engagement and make her testify that her own father had formed a faction and plotted rebellion?
Ha! She was a senior commander in the 21st century. She’d rather die than leak national intelligence. Did he really think she’d listen to a piece of trash like him?
And yet, although this was ancient times, women could actually sit the imperial exams and enter government service? The empress was even on the throne! What a stroke of luck! This was the perfect chance for her to show what she could do.
Her family had been forbidden from joining the army for three generations? Her father and brothers were all useless? No problem. Chao Ge would handle it.
A contest for dominance with men? She knew exactly how to play that game. Watch Chao Ge stir up the winds of change, make her way through the ancient bureaucracy, rewrite the rules of court, and carve out a place for women in the world.
Mu Yunzhou had always believed that, although he was frail, he was exceptionally clever, the finest of all his mother-empress’s children, and the one destined to inherit the throne. That was, until a woman named Chao Ge entered his life.
She told him that the world was vast, and he didn’t have to settle for a corner of it. Women, too, could achieve great things instead of living only for men and children…
