On the day the country was overthrown, she was dragged out of the dry well and became the most despicable "C-number 37" in the prisoner of war camp.
However, the powerful minister Pei Yan picked her out from among the thousands of people and carried her into the sedan chair.
On their wedding night, she pressed the gold hairpin hidden in her bun against his throat:
"I will help you ascend the throne and become emperor, on one condition - let me be the female prime minister."
Pei Yan agreed. But he didn't know that she still held in her hands the edict of the previous dynasty and the connections in the old ministry that could overturn the country.
From then on, there was a woman in purple robe in the court.
She was kicked out of the palace by the censor, so she spent three months visiting twelve counties and returned to the court with detailed data;
She was imprisoned for hiding the jade seal, so she wrote a "Prison Policy" in prison, which put the entire court to shame;
She was forced by her old subordinates to return to the country, but she burned the late emperor's edict in public: "I will not be an empress, I will only reform."
It took her ten years to go from being a female historian of the ninth rank to being the first female prime minister in Daliang.
And the man who picked her up from the dust, from a powerful minister to an emperor, from suspicion to deep love, left her only one sentence before his death:
"You are not my queen, you are half of my kingdom."
This is a story about a woman using the system to change her destiny.
She doesn't want a harem, she wants a court; she doesn't want favors, she wants power; she doesn't want a crown, she wants a kingdom.
——She wants to prove that women can also stand on the top of power based on their abilities.
