[Single female protagonist] [No CP] [Career line]
The world wanted her to be a woman, so she destroyed this woman's prison.
The court asked her to be a man, so she broke the man's rules.
What Xie Yanqing wants to do is to be above gender—a chess player.
From the abandoned girl in the cold kiln to the purple-clad prime minister, she steps on the edge of the abyss every step of the way:
The bones in the chest hurt, the fingers in the body search are dangerous, colleagues look at you like a knife, and the marriage in the world is like a yoke.
Hidden in her sleeves are sharp weapons that women in the boudoir are never allowed to see: the strategies that can mediate the world, the economic methods that can fill the national treasury, and the knowledge of star maps that control the sky and determine the time.
Until she stood on the top of the Golden Palace, wielding power over everything.
No one dared to comment on Xie Xiang's appearance anymore - until the purple robe was torn open in public.
There was deathly silence all over the court, and the emperor was furious. He threw an inkstone and asked: "Are you... A man or a woman?!"
Under the Danqi, she slowly raised her head, and a smile appeared on her blood-stained face:
"Your Majesty, the number one scholar you personally promoted, the prime minister you rely on wholeheartedly, the person who writes the blueprint for your prosperous age - you have always stood here."
"Gender is the first and simplest shackle that I have to untie for you and for this world."
