Riding the Phoenix Across the Nine Heavens: The Empress Chronicles

#Female-Dominated World #Reborn #Political Intrigue #Two Strong Leads #Primary Consort

Shen Jinghong: I only wanted to focus on my career. How did my husband become even better at political scheming than I am?

In her previous life, Shen Jinghong spent three years as a puppet empress before her own sister poisoned her in the Cold Palace.

Only as she lay dying did she see the truth: Xiao Che, the primary consort she had spent a lifetime suspecting and suppressing, had taken three arrows for her and died during the palace coup. Her beloved elder sister was the ungrateful traitor who usurped the empire and destroyed her entire family.

Now she's back in the first year of her reign, and the whole court thinks she's a pushover they can trample on?

Sorry, she's done playing the puppet!

She exposes traitors, cleans up the Revenue Ministry, reforms the civil service examinations, and tightens her grip on power with every move.

Her sister wants to seize power? She'll cut off her right-hand men first!

The great clans want to monopolize the court? She'll remove names from the examinations and open the way for commoners!

And she'll bring back the cool, aloof primary consort she neglected for three years, then protect him properly.

Wait, why is this primary consort nothing like the rumors? Wasn't he supposed to be frail and detached from worldly desires? How does he have an underground network even bigger than hers?