[The female lead is not chaste + self-serving + uses every man and loves none of them + power and ambition + political scheming, not limited to palace intrigue]
"When a woman stands at the peak of power, men are nothing but accessories."
"The female lead knows exactly what she wants: absolute power. Her ultimate goal is the throne."
When Zhao Qiwu opened her eyes, she was lying in a golden nanmu coffin.
Funeral music thundered through the mourning hall as officials from the entire court knelt and wept.
Zhao Qiwu shoved the coffin lid open and sat up. Incense and candles toppled, offerings scattered across the floor, and everyone froze in terror. Even the monks chanting sutras forgot to put their palms together.
"Your Highness?"
After an explosion, special forces soldier Zhao Qiwu transmigrated into the body of her namesake, Zhao Qiwu, the Grand Princess of the Great Yong Dynasty and its Protector.
With a hundred thousand cavalry at her command, she is the emperor's most useful weapon and a pawn fought over by the crown prince and the fourth prince.
The crown prince is in a hurry to get himself killed? She takes him out with a wave of her hand.
The fourth prince stages a coup? She kills him in return.
The emperor pretends to favor her? She turns around and chops up the dragon throne for firewood.
They want to use her to keep the factions in balance?
She flips over the board in this game that was rigged from the start.
She enters the game herself, and the court is thrown into turmoil. Every step is calculated; blood stains the palace steps as she kills corrupt officials and drives reforms.
She bathes the Golden Hall in blood.
The empress takes the throne in full regalia and ushers in a new golden age for Great Yong.
One day,
a man stands before her manor, holding a child's hand.
"Your Highness, you weren't this cold when you forced yourself on me seven years ago."
Zhao Qiwu smiles and points to the men standing behind her, all glaring at him.
Sorry, I only take what I want. I'm not responsible afterward, whoever you are.
