[Reborn + political intrigue + everyone is clever + no romance + ensemble cast]
The heroine is neither saintly nor a white lotus! She loves putting on an act, and everything she does is a disguise!
In her previous life, the family’s matriarch blamed Zhi Nanying’s birth for her grandfather’s death and drove her from the home. Her parents did not bring her back to the manor until she was fourteen.
But shortly after she was reunited with them, her father was implicated in a corruption case. The Zhi family declined overnight. Her father was stripped of his office and took gravely ill in bed, her mother cried until she went blind, and her older brother was falsely accused of cheating in the imperial examinations, barred from ever serving at court, and beaten until both his legs were broken.
Meanwhile, her second uncle’s family took all the family’s wealth and ran off with the matriarch.
She had no choice but to enter the game herself and seek powerful allies. She exhausted every scheme to help the Third Prince ascend the throne, asking only to become empress.
In the end, he broke his promise and had her entire family executed.
Reborn, she realizes that no one can be her support!
If she had the ability to put the Third Prince on the throne, why not take the throne herself?
If she wants to protect her family, then she must become the most powerful person in the world and stop placing her hopes in others.
Back at the age of fourteen, watch as she uses clever tricks to deal with the matriarch, helps her father escape the corruption case unscathed, and gets her brother onto the imperial examination honor roll...
Everyone is a pawn, herself included. Step by step, she will climb to the throne.
Reborn, she seeks not to be empress, but emperor! (The dynasty is fictional, so the official ranks and structure differ from those in history!)
