[Strong female lead + no romance + everyone’s favorite + comeback + power struggles]
Luo Yi, empress of the beastfolk world, has reached the pinnacle of life. All she desires is immortality. While cultivating according to an ancient scroll, she transmigrates into the body of a concubine of Xie Wenjin, a military commander stationed in a border city.
The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is a domestic abuse scene.
Xie Wenjin is vicious by nature. Suspecting that the original owner had eloped with another man, he dragged her back to humiliate and beat her.
A crowd stands nearby, watching coldly. Sun Momo, the steward, keeps fanning the flames and kicking her while she’s down.
Madam Li, the principal wife, watches impassively from the side, secretly keeping an eye on her husband and making sure he doesn’t go too easy on the punishment.
No matter how the original owner explains or begs for mercy, nothing helps. In the end, she is beaten to death.
Luo Yi, once a woman high above all others, only now realizes that she has come to a world where men rule over women and strict hierarchies hold sway.
The original owner was a lowly concubine.
Her husband is brutal, the principal wife is cruel, and even the servants dare to bully her as they please.
To attain immortality, Luo Yi must live the original owner’s life in her place.
Even as a concubine, the empress of the beastfolk world can make a perfect comeback.
So what if her status is low? She has no support, but she has no fear!
Her beauty is her weapon, her eloquence her means, and her strategy the foundation on which she stands.
After all, who doesn’t love someone everyone adores?
Four walls cannot confine her, rules of propriety cannot keep her down, and insults and violence are useless against her.
She makes friends, wins over influential allies, does business cleverly, and turns others’ power to her advantage.
Step by step, she breaks free of her cage, makes a perfect comeback, and rises to the pinnacle of power.
Whether men offer her true affection or false devotion, they are all just stepping-stones on her way up.
Is becoming the Empress Dowager, or even the empress, her lifelong goal?
No. She is merely returning to the place that was always hers.
