One Woman Holds the Pass

At seventeen, she believed he was the man destined for her. Three years of standing by each other through hardship helped him ascend the throne. Then she woke from her dream one day and learned that it had all been part of his scheme to seize both the kingdom and its beauty. At twenty-one, she gave birth to a son, only to hear him call another woman "Empress Mother." After fifteen years abandoned in the cold palace, her family was framed and every last one of them was slaughtered. On the punishment platform, as the branding irons burned her, she wailed and swore that if she could live again, she would have her revenge. Heaven did not forsake her. She returned to the world twenty-two years earlier, and would fulfill every vow she made before her death! But how could a delicate young lady's slender hands be stained with blood? My all-powerful husband, you can't come to bed until you've dealt with every last one of my enemies... Theme: