[Content warning: no romance · female-led · pure wish fulfillment · everyone has her back · overwhelming face-slapping, not a single frustrating moment]
Xu Mo stayed up all night, trashed a terrible novel, and got transported into it the moment she finished.
She becomes the unfortunate empress from the book: the legitimate daughter of a military family, trained in real martial arts, yet unloved after two years in the palace, poisoned by the favored concubine, and publicly insulted by powerful officials as “the last of the Xu line.”
In the original story, she kneels to death in the snow, and her family is destroyed.
But Xu Mo refuses to accept that fate. She slaps the green tea girl across the face and knocks the emperor into a snowbank. She surrounds the imperial city with 30,000 soldiers and clears out the imperial treasury and corrupt officials' mansions, one by one. When the emperor comes in person to demand an explanation, she fires back with “What did I do wrong?” five times, and he slinks back to the palace.
Because her family is the Xu clan, which guarded the borders of Great Zhao for twenty years. They command 300,000 cavalry in the north, and half the generals in the capital were trained by her father.
Because her maternal grandfather is the head of Dark Night Manor, the greatest assassin sect in the martial world. At his command, a hundred hidden guards enter the capital overnight to protect her. Whoever they don't like gets dealt with on the spot.
The emperor: “I have 100,000 imperial guards.”
Xu Mo: “What a coincidence. My family has 300,000 border troops. Why don't you figure out whether you'll still be able to sit securely on that throne?”
No romance, no saving scumbags, and not a hint of mistreatment. Whoever crosses her, she crushes. Loyal subjects will never be disheartened again, and every villain will be buried with the dead. From the moment she arrives, the skies of Great Zhao change color.
