Shangguan Wan'er: Qingluan Soars

She was originally the daughter of a guilty minister and became a slave in Yeting, but she used pen and ink as a blade to carve her name at the peak of power in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When she was seven years old, Shangguan Wan'er was reduced from the prime minister's granddaughter to a palace slave. In the dark Yeting, her mother Zheng pointed to the scale beam and said: "You should weigh the world." This sentence became her lifelong prophecy. Wu Zetian is her family-killing enemy and her imperial mentor. From Yeting to Zichen Palace, Wan'er learned to write the cruelest decrees with the most elegant verses, and to deal with the most dangerous traps with the gentlest smile. She has been in charge of the imperial court for twenty years and has become the most trusted "female prime minister" of the Queen. She commented on poetry in Cailou, leading a generation of literary style, and literati and poets were honored to receive her criticism. Shenlong's coup, Empress Wei's chaos, Tang Long's rebellion... She tried her best to balance in the bloody whirlpool between Li Tang and Wu Zhou. She admonished Zhongzong four times and issued edicts to check and balance Empress Wei, but she could not escape the fate of political liquidation. This is not a simple legend of a talented woman, but an epic story of a woman using her talent and wisdom to survive to the extreme in an absolutely patriarchal world. The book will restore in depth: · The true image of the "dead admonisher" revealed by the epitaph · How she builds cultural power through book editing and poetry writing · The complex and subtle female alliance and game with Wu Zetian and Princess Taiping · The splendor and cruelty of the Tang Dynasty court, the rules and costs of the power game When Qingluan broke her wings, the woman who weighed the world finally measured the distance between ideal and reality with her life. Her story is a revelation about talent, power, love and survival in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.