Lord Zhao, Did You Get Promoted Today?
In this world, power is the law. "Who says a woman can't be ambitious?"
A girl from a poor family? The daughter of a disgraced official? Those are nothing but stepping-stones on her climb to the top.
She plots her every move.
Rules? A joke written by those at the top. Fairness? As flimsy as tissue paper in the face of power.
A remote border county is the first square on her chessboard.
The powerful families of the prefecture are stepping-stones on her way up.
The shifting tides of the capital are her training ground for the coronation.
[The Gentle County Magistrate]: She uses his admiration to rise from the bottom.
[The Noble Young Master]: She allies with him to bring down the local tyrants.
[The Regent Prince]: A worthy opponent, testing the limits of imperial power.
Everyone thinks she's just a beautiful pawn in a game of power. The men all want to tame her, use her, and break her. None of them realize that she has long been studying the board with cool eyes, turning every man under heaven into a step on her ladder to the clouds!
In the end, they all become the most brilliant footnotes in her handbook of power!
They gave me thorns, but I will wear the phoenix crown.
They see me as a pawn, so I'll overturn the whole board!
Watch a girl from a poor family navigate the ambitions of all around her,
and trample the rules of this male-dominated world beneath her feet.
What she wants has never been anyone's pity. She wants to...
stand atop the heights of power in an age when women are expected only to serve their husbands and raise children.
In this world where men move the pieces, she will reshape with her own hands the society that trampled her.
