Exiled to a Deserted Island: The Five Female Convicts and I Built a Country

On the day our family was confiscated and we were sent into exile, five other female convicts were aboard the same prison ship. The ship capsized in forbidden waters, and we drifted ashore on a deserted island. On the first night, a masked female convict asked me across the fire, "You've read military treatises and commanded household troops. Do you dare become emperor?" I said no. She smiled. "Then survive this winter first." By the third spring, a hundred ships of the imperial navy had surrounded the island. The ones kneeling on deck to hand over their surrender document were them.