Zhaolin Rules the World: Reborn as a Useless Princess, I Remade Myself Into an Empress

[Ancient Political Intrigue + Powerful Female Lead + Romantic Rivalry + Strong Alliances + Feel-Good Revenge]

An empress-in-the-making and a romantic rivalry readers can bet on: modern thinking gives the ancient imperial court a crushing advantage. The career plot is fiery, the romance is satisfying, and the face-slapping and scum-trampling never leave you frustrated.

Ying Zhao finds herself transmigrated into the most outrageous Grand Princess in ancient history, whose notorious reputation is enough to silence crying children at night.

She had planned to lie flat and perfectly recreate her ideal life of “drinking and dreaming away the days, then happily retiring.”

But reality deals her a heavy blow: court power struggles, her younger brother the emperor and the Dowager Consort courting disaster, enemy cavalry at the border, the empire on the brink of collapse, and everyone trying to use her as a pawn.

She slowly puts away her retirement plans, takes up the reins of power, and smiles faintly.

“A pawn? If I am to play, I will be the one moving the pieces.”

“This court is beyond saving... Fine, I’ll just take the throne myself.”

The mysterious strategist A Yin: “Let me clear every obstacle from your path...”

The cold-faced general Wei Lin: “Your Highness, I am willing to become your sharpest blade!”

From then on, she seizes power, restores order at court, repels foreign enemies, opens maritime trade, and forms alliances with other nations. With every step carefully planned, she turns the whole world in the palm of her hand.

From a woman with a scandalous reputation to the sovereign of the realm, from a game of political intrigue to bloody warfare, she becomes ruler of all under heaven.

Those who once mocked her now kneel beneath the palace steps and cry, “Long live the empress!”

But when the assembled court cries “Long live the empress!” and all under heaven is in her hands, she finally realizes: “Whatever happened to my retirement? Why is life getting more restless the more I try to lie flat?”