Modern operations manager Su Wan works herself to death from overtime and transmigrates to ancient times, where she becomes a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter about to marry a good-for-nothing prince.
Others laugh at her for jumping into a fire pit, but she laughs at them for failing to see the truth.
She reforms the prince’s estate, roots out parasites, opens a rouge shop, and builds an intelligence network. With her modern mindset, she thrives in the ancient world.
Who would have guessed that the good-for-nothing prince, a lame lecher, was actually a peerless warlord who had been biding his time for three years?
Together, the couple takes on the crown prince, quells a coup, secures their fiefdom, and fights the Northern Desert.
When Xiao Jingyuan is ambushed and captured at the front, throwing the court into turmoil, Su Wan defies the opposition and takes charge of the kingdom in a crisis.
She breaks the shackles of patriarchy, forms an army of women, leads the campaign to rescue her husband, and crushes every opponent with an iron fist.
In the end, clad in the imperial robes, she stands in the Golden Throne Hall and gazes out over a vast empire.
“Who says a woman can’t be emperor? Today, I, Su Wan, will set that precedent!”
