I Disguised Myself as a Woman to Rule the Realm

In her previous life, she was Su Mingyan. She spent ten years plotting to help Xiao Che claim the throne. Her reward was the charge of “treason by the in-laws,” and every member of the Su family was beheaded. Reborn, she became Xie Heng, the only son of the main branch of the Xie clan: a seventeen-year-old top scholar and a censor who was a thorn in the emperor's side. Her enemies were all close at hand: one sat on the throne, one lay beside the imperial bed, and one stood at the emperor's side. She had no intention of assassinating them or staging a coup. She would start with a single case, strip away the emperor's support piece by piece, and drive her enemies into a corner, step by step. In the salt tax case, she knocked three teeth out of Chancellor Li. In the military provisions case, she severed one of the emperor's arms. In the imperial examination case, she had the chancellor's son exiled three thousand li. In the treasury case, she tore away the emperor's last shred of cover. At court, she joined forces with Prince Jing, Xiao Jue: he brought military power, and she brought strategy. Away from court, he watched her calmly directing the pieces and suddenly asked: “Lord Xie, is the person you hate the same person you love?” This was a revenge destined to go down in history. She wanted more than one person's life. She wanted to transform an entire dynasty.