The Dayan Empire has stood for three hundred years. By the time the seventeenth emperor, Wu Heng, inherits the throne, imperial authority has waned and the realm is divided into four.
To the east, the Xiao clan commands three thousand warships and is the richest under heaven. To the west, the Ling family fields thirty thousand iron cavalrymen, undefeated in a hundred battles. To the north, the Hexi clan has one hundred thousand armored soldiers and is sharpening its weapons. To the south, the Tianyan Sect has a million followers and claims to speak for Heaven.
Just as rival powers vie for supremacy and a chaotic age begins, Shen Yaoyao arrives, a woman carrying a System designed to bring ruin to the nation.
She's an old hand at transmigrating into a book, and this assignment is familiar too. Win over four men, become a demoness blamed for the nation's downfall, make them turn on each other, and bundle them all into a bad ending.
But this time, she's suddenly had enough.
She's tired of being a puppet for others to manipulate, tired of being reduced to a throwaway line about a demon consort who brought down a dynasty, tired of being just a pawn yet having to shoulder all the blame for this chaotic age.
So Chen Yaoyao betrays the System and goes on the run.
At first, all she wants is to break free of her fate and escape the chaos. She never expects to get caught up in the whirlpool of the throne and power, personally stirring up the winds and clouds across the realm.
If there's no way back, then she won't turn back.
She wants to sit on the dragon throne.
She wants to fight for the realm.
She wants to write her own line into the history books.
If she's going to cause trouble anyway, she might as well go all out.
Being a demon consort is her job.
Becoming the empress is the life she was meant to live.
