[Strong heroine + powerful female lead + political intrigue + decisive and ruthless]
“Half of Great Qian rests on my shoulders.”
“If he doesn’t want to sit on the Dragon Throne in the Golden Hall, then I’ll sit on it in his place!”
In her previous life, Li Zhaoyang, the Eldest Princess of Great Qian, managed the imperial treasury with utmost dedication, while her husband, Marquis Wu’an, guarded the frontier against the Northern Mang.
They rarely had a chance to meet because of their duties to the country, enduring the pain of longing for each other.
But Emperor Qian was wary of their power. He destroyed his own defenses and had them both killed.
“If you two were alive, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night!”
“Elder Sister, has there ever been a princess in all of history who was violated by a eunuch?”
Consumed by endless regret, Zhaoyang was reborn three days before her death. As she read the letter sent by her husband, Lin Yang, the tenderness in her eyes gradually gave way to cold resolve.
“Since Heaven has given me another life, then Li Junyin won’t be sitting on the throne of Great Qian for much longer!”
She set up soup kitchens in the capital to aid refugees and win the people’s hearts.
She secretly laid plans in the southeast, eliminated Marquis Qingyang, and cut off one of Emperor Qian’s arms.
She used a corruption case to launch an official inspection and purge the emperor’s allies.
She helped Marquis Wu’an crush the Northern Mang and pacify the realm…
Driven to the brink in his struggle against Zhaoyang, Emperor Qian chose to stake everything on one final gamble.
“Kill her, and the realm will still be mine!”
On the fifth day of the tenth month of the first year of Zhaohua,
Emperor Qian led the Imperial Guards in an attack on the marquis’s residence. Zhaoyang stood ready with her sword, smiling as she asked:
“Why have you rebelled, Your Majesty?”
