She Doesn't Compete for Favor, She Seizes Power

A Powerful Minister's Daughter: Brilliant, Ruthless, and Cunning

The heroine's father or family should be a powerful minister, feared by the emperor. I don't care whether he's a loyal minister or a treacherous one. I don't want petty household squabbles over wives, concubines, and children. I want a ruthless ambition to seize power for the family. And a powerful minister's daughter should act like one: skilled at plotting for power and wielding it.