The Beauty Who Dreams of Conquering the World

“If you cannot bloom above the clouds, you will fall among the dust and mud.” This was the appraisal given to Yi Shui in her childhood by a renowned scholar of the court. But Yi Shui, who fell into the dust and mud, eventually bloomed above the clouds. An imperial decree confiscating her family’s property sent Yi Shui from her little courtyard to the pleasure house, then to a marquis’s residence, a powerful minister’s outer courtyard, and finally the inner palace. In the end, she successfully climbed out of the mire and became the master of her own fate and the realm. Content warnings: 1. The heroine is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous... 2. There may be plenty of melodramatic Mary Sue moments. 3. The heroine starts out in a darkened state of mind, so don’t get hung up on her morals. 4. No entry for shippers of straight couples.