My Entire Family Was Sentenced to Death from the Start, So I Rebelled When I Was Exiled to the Frontier!

[Historical romance + confiscation and exile + frontier development + farming and rebellion + no goody-two-shoes heroine]

When Shen Zhaoning awoke, she had been reborn on the night before her entire family was to be stripped of their possessions.

In her previous life, she was the capital’s most celebrated legitimate daughter of the prime minister. Then she was falsely accused of treason, and her entire family was exiled to the freezing frontier.

Her father died vomiting blood, still bearing an unjust accusation. Her mother fell ill and died in the wilderness. Her elder brother was worked to death in a mine, and her little sister starved by the roadside.

As for Shen Zhaoning, the crown prince publicly humiliated her, and she eventually froze to death on the road to exile.

This time, she would no longer be a pampered aristocratic daughter for others to manipulate.

They said the frontier was a barren wasteland? She cleared land and planted crops, built canals and workshops, and turned the desolate borderlands into a paradise beyond the passes.

They said exiled convicts were beneath contempt? She gathered refugees and trained a private army, turning a ragtag band of criminals into battle-hardened soldiers.

They said women couldn’t meddle in politics? She took military power in one hand and the people’s hearts in the other, until the masses knelt and hailed her as the Empress.

The court sent people to suppress her? Send them packing.

The emperor decreed her death? Then she would rebel!

A cold-faced general watched the woman who had turned the frontier upside down. After a long silence, he asked:

“What exactly are you trying to do?”

Shen Zhaoning smiled faintly. “The Shen family is owed justice by this realm. I’ll claim it myself.”

The general: “...So you’re rebelling?”

Shen Zhaoning: “I prefer to call it restoring order to the realm.”

The people of the frontier: “Miss Zhaoning gave us a new lease on life!”

The court officials: “That Shen woman... she’s insane!”

The people of the realm: “Long live the Empress!”

In her previous life, she had let down the whole world. This time, she would make the whole world bear the Shen name!