The 43-year-old unmarried executive was transformed into an "elderly leftover woman" in the early Tang Dynasty, and at the age of 44, she was given the gift of marriage and children. After her husband was widowed and expelled, she tore apart her stepson and outsmarted powerful officials to put her daughter on the throne. When he died at the age of 92, he was named empress - the end of being unmarried and infertile was to become the mother of an empress!
