[Relaxed, theatrical female lead | Everyone is deluding themselves | No angst, pure feel-good power fantasy | No CP, female emperor ascends to legend]
Su Qingyan transmigrates into a book as a stunning cannon-fodder woman in a chaotic age.
In the original story, she is a stepping stone in the princes' struggle for imperial power. Used and manipulated, she bears the infamy of being a femme fatale, then dies horribly amid the chaos, with no remains left behind.
After transmigrating into the book, she comes to her senses: love is an illusion. Power is a woman's best beauty treatment!
As the princes go mad fighting for the throne, she neither competes nor takes sides. She simply acts and watches.
A master actress takes the stage: thirty percent tenderness, all an act; seventy percent devotion, all a disguise.
For the obsessive God of War, she plays the woman who would marry no one else in this life.
For the domineering eldest prince, she plays the gentle, devoted dependent.
For the scheming prince, she plays someone sincere and completely unguarded.
Give a woman three parts of wine, and she'll act until you cry!
All three princes fall for their own schemes, lost in her counterfeit affection.
They fight over her, turn against each other at court, and wage bloody wars, each convinced he has won her heart and that claiming the empire will win him the beauty too.
They exhaust their troops and supplies, throwing the land into turmoil as they battle for half their lives, never realizing that from beginning to end, they've been working for her and paving her way.
The smoke of war clears, and the chaotic age comes to an end.
Su Qingyan tears away her fragile disguise, dons the imperial robes, and takes her place in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Looking down at the warlords gaping in shock and collapsing in regret, she smiles serenely:
"People are always debating whether to choose the empire or the beauty. But the empire is already in my hands, and I am the beauty myself. Why choose?"
No angst, no love-brain, no pointless emotional turmoil!
Watch this theatrical beauty fish for heroes, claim ten thousand miles of territory, ascend the throne alone, and reign supreme in an age of prosperity!
Can you really give me more of this kind of heroine plot? Compared with the kind of spoiled wife literature and the abuse of women, this is what I really want to read. The heroine is strategizing, controlling human nature, and has a clear understanding of the fire. The characters are well set, the plot is not cliché, and the subject matter is novel. In short, it is really a good book worth reading!