This is an era that has never been seen before or since. The empress ascends to the court, the princess dominates the court, and the female Prime Minister Cai Lou comments on poetry.
Later generations called it the "Red Makeup Era".
Shangguan Wan'er's life fell into the quagmire because of Wu Zhao, and rose to the top because of Wu Zhao.
Later, when she faced a sword in the rebellious army, she remembered that in the first year of Shenlong, was the aging empress as helpless and painful as she faced resistance and betrayal?
