Transmigrated into Princess Taiping: Becoming the Second Empress of Great Zhou

Wu Heer, a 21st-century master’s graduate in microexpression psychology, is a devoted Tang dynasty history buff and an ardent fan of Princess Taiping. She has always lamented the fate of this powerful princess. Taiping’s defeat was not due to a lack of political skill, but to her insistence on keeping the Li surname. Under a patriarchal monarchy, her claim to legitimacy was inherently weaker than those of Li Dan and Li Longji. Had she instead taken the Wu surname and inherited Wu Zetian’s political legacy, history might have turned out very differently.

In a sudden twist of fate, she transmigrates into Princess Taiping on the very day Xue Shao is sentenced to death, just after the princess has been widowed.

Once a spectator mourning history’s tragedies, she is now the protagonist caught in the game.

Her ability to read people through microexpressions is her unique weapon. In this life, she cuts off her attachments and casts aside all weakness and romantic feelings, transforming herself into a cold-blooded political animal. Unbound by love and family, and relying on no one in the Li clan, she grasps the power of the Wu family and carefully maneuvers to stir up the imperial court.

She will rewrite her supposedly doomed fate and, as a woman, rise to the pinnacle of power, living as the truly unassailable Princess Taiping.