Waiting for Your Return Beneath the Loquat Tree

In her previous life, Chen Nian'an helped her husband rise to the position of Grand Secretary.

But she had given her heart to the wrong man. Her half-sister, Chen Jin'an, was the one he truly loved.

Given another chance at life, she realized that a woman's way forward

had never been to find a good husband.

Only by becoming strong herself could she be her own lifelong support.

Faced with the injustices of her era,

she resolved to awaken the countless women oppressed

and constrained by feudal morality.

She deftly defused her enemies' plots and crises.

When her country was in danger, she stepped forward.

As the heroine endured factional strife, foreign invasions, and a coup attempt,

Li Chenglin quietly protected her from behind through one crisis after another.

Their feelings for each other gradually grew,

and together they introduced new policies and reformed taxation,

seeking rights for the countless women bound by feudal morality and enacting new laws.

Step by step, they climbed to the pinnacle of power.

But the hero died young while saving her,

leaving behind an edict: “The Li family's empire is yours to claim.”

When her family urged her to take the throne and wipe out the Li imperial clan,

would she become an empress whose name would go down in history,

or, like the hero who had quietly protected her,

would she safeguard the Li family's empire in his place?