You Dare Mess with a Laundry Maid? Looks Like You Need a Beating

Laundry Maid to Empress | A Lightning-Fast Rise | Clear-Headed Female Lead | Palace Intrigue | Plotting to Become Empress She spent fourteen years in the laundry, surviving on her knees. She never cried out when her fingers were crushed or shed a tear after twenty lashes. Her mother was thrown down a well and drowned, and she waited seventeen years for revenge. A Qi, an abandoned laundry maid, clawed her way up from the lowest rung of the Prime Minister's residence. While everyone thought she was just an ant they could bully at will, she was already memorizing every face and everyone who had ever stepped on her. The Noble Consort wanted to use her, the Third Prince wanted to use her, and the Empress wanted her dead. The Emperor was her own father, yet he watched her mother die. She pretended to be obedient while secretly laying her plans. Everyone thought they were the players, never realizing they had long since become her pieces. In the well at the estate outside the city lay thirty-seven skeletons, including her mother's. In the Prime Minister's cellar were ledgers proving treason and collusion with the enemy. In the Cold Palace, the Noble Consort learned only on her deathbed that her daughter had been found long ago, but A Qi had spared her because she “hadn't killed anyone.” At the Golden Throne Hall, with the Imperial Guard surrounding the city, A Qi revealed three thousand elite soldiers. Her words, “Lay down your weapons and your past crimes will be forgiven,” turned the rebels against their leaders. From kneeling to receive an imperial decree to sitting as others bowed before her. From laundry maid to the Great Zhou Dynasty's first empress. On the day of her coronation, she tossed her mother's jade pendant and hairpin into that well. Her first imperial decree ordered the Prime Minister's execution. She said, “This lowly maid who clawed her way out of the laundry won't just have someone to bury her. She'll make the people of the entire imperial capital kneel before her.” She becomes empress in a lightning-fast eighty-eight chapters. No saintly heroine, no love-addled foolishness. Her strengths are patience, endurance, and ruthlessness.