(This story is not a matriarchy + fictional setting + multiple male leads + extensive original worldbuilding)
Above, on the sky screen, streamer Cen Xiaoxi spoke at length: “The Great Yan Dynasty was an exceptionally unique and important dynasty, an era that produced countless talented people…”
Below, the sky screen, a princess issued a proclamation, openly challenging the emperor: “…The current emperor is obsessed with glory, leaving the nation weakened and the people impoverished. He neglects state affairs, allowing law and order to collapse. What right does he have to call himself emperor? The founding emperor once appeared to me in a dream…”
The Yan Dynasty has reached the edge of a cliff. Can it climb to new heights once more?
From the heroine’s perspective:
Hui'an was the ninth princess of Great Yan. From childhood, she was taught that “a woman should stay home, serve her husband, and raise her children…” She didn’t understand why her third older sister was so devoted to leading troops into battle, nor why her adoptive mother taught her to seize every chance to grow stronger.
There was so much she didn’t understand, and she avoided learning the truth, until death came.
Dying in humiliation hurt. Dying after losing everything was agony. Dying under torture filled her with hatred… At last, she understood that power was everything.
Her father was afraid, afraid of women.
How ridiculous that she had been deceived by such a coward for so long!!!
She fought for power, used any means necessary, and lost herself…
Only when she recognized the change within herself did Hui'an finally understand: she had to become a ruler who controlled herself, not a puppet of power.
She opened her eyes and returned to reality.
This time, she would become emperor in name and in truth.
But why was the sky cracking open?
