A woman disguises herself as a man—no male protagonist
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She has two names.
Liu Yun is the most inconspicuous concubine in the Shangshu Mansion. She is timid and sick, living in a corner where no one cares about her.
Su Zhao was a close disciple of Grand Tutor Su Heng and his only successor after his death. As a man, she took the scientific examination and became an official, but as a woman, she stayed dormant and endured. She spent seventeen years walking from the snow in the south of the Yangtze River to the Golden Palace - just to complete the reforms that her master had sacrificed her life for and to break the thousand-year-old barrier that the aristocratic family had monopolized the court.
The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty never took her seriously until the moment she put the reform plan above the imperial court. They discovered that this woman, ignored by everyone, was never a pawn. She is the chess player.
