A career-focused story in a matriarchal world.
Cool, brilliant, black-hearted woman × loyal war-god prince
No System, no golden finger, no transmigration or rebirth | Matriarchal political intrigue, revenge, and a comeback.
Cast aside by her crown prince husband → female diplomat → Empress Dowager ruling from behind the curtain. Sweet on the outside, ruthless within, she plans every step and defies fate.
The heroine Bai Ruoli could have reached the pinnacle of martial arts and inherited the sect leadership, but she gave up her future for love.
To help her husband seize the throne, she willingly surrendered her position as crown princess and faded into obscurity as a discarded nobody in the Eastern Palace.
In return, she was stripped of her martial arts, humiliated and trampled on, and saw her loved ones die...
In the end, all six hundred members of her sect were slaughtered...
On a snowy night, she was rescued on the brink of death by the “notorious” Sixth Prince, then forced to flee beyond the passes.
But she didn't know that this mad prince, who lounged drunk beneath the flowers, was really a dormant war god, and that he was also her...
During her five years beyond the passes, she shed her naivete and became a “diplomat” moving between three nations.
She exploited the Tubi, drove a wedge into the Murong clan, turned two hundred thousand frontier troops against their masters, and laid an astonishing trap.
One imperial edict, and the crown princess's entire family was sentenced to death!
Her former crown prince husband knelt and begged. “Give me one more chance!”
She cast a cold glance from her phoenix eyes. “You see the Empress Dowager. Why aren't you kneeling?”
When the young emperor ascended the throne, she ruled from behind the curtain as Empress Dowager of the realm.
He took charge of the court as regent prince, forever standing behind her.
※Note: This is an alternate history inspired by the mid-Tang era. Any resemblance to actual events is entirely my invention.
