A Pill Venerable in her previous life, an ordinary physician in this one.
Even in the womb, she fought her way through the days, keeping her reborn younger brother from devouring her and curbing his violence until she had raised him into a God of War who would defend the nation and obey her every command.
She holds peerless pill recipes in her hands, and her younger brother, who commands the military, has her back.
In the Great Yan dynasty, ancient martial arts flourish and rituals are strict. Women’s lives are worth next to nothing, and the laws are riddled with injustice.
She opens clinics and trading houses, amassing the wealth of the realm. She recruits forces from the martial world and builds a covert intelligence network, stirring up the court’s succession struggle all on her own.
Everyone laughs at her for being greedy for power and profit. How could a mere woman dare meddle in government and shake the ancestral order?
Qi Wanyue only gives a cold laugh.
From the day she faced off against her brother in the womb, she intended to do more than set his dark fate straight.
Power is a blade for prying open the shackles of a thousand years of male supremacy. The succession struggle is only a means to stand at the summit and join the emperor in reshaping the world.
When she rises to the position of the greatest female chancellor in history, she will open schools far and wide, establish the first women’s imperial examination, reform the laws, and abolish distinctions of rank, giving men and women equal rights.
From then on, women will be free to study, serve in government, run their own businesses, and choose whom to marry.
She builds her standing through medicine and alchemy, clears her path with political strategy, and has the backing of her brother’s million-strong army. Beginning with beating her brother in the womb, she rewrites the fate of an entire dynasty, one step at a time.
It is a very innovative book, and the women in the book each have their own strengths. The heroine is an alchemist from the world of immortality who travels to the ancient Wu Dynasty. She sees the injustice that women suffer in law and life, and she has the ambition to open an academy for women all over the world, open up the road to imperial examinations, and benefit the people all over the world. Fine grain, no exaggerated golden fingers, slow-burning, eloquent, no routine, good-looking.
This is a story about female redemption. The heroine travels back to the ancient Wu Dynasty and sees the injustice faced by women in court. They are ridiculed and insulted for the illnesses caused by childbirth. The story of wanting to change the rules of the world so that women can study and gain knowledge and be qualified through the imperial examinations came up. She didn't have a very strong golden finger. She just relied on her knowledge and skills to plan step by step. After many years of preparation, she stood at the top of power, and then worked for the welfare of women and ordinary people. In the group portrait, each woman has her own shining point. There are also noble people who help, but she is worth it.