The Female Emperor

[Entering V on October 30, with three chapters that day. Leave a comment for a chance to get a little red envelope! Please support the official release, kisses~] Her father and brothers were branded traitors and beheaded. Her mother couldn't bear the humiliation and took her own life at the gate. The clan's men were all exiled to a bitterly cold land, while the women were sent to the entertainment quarters. A family that had flourished for more than four hundred years was wiped out overnight. The deposed empress Wang Xin struggled to survive in the Cold Palace for three years. With her death approaching, her soul left her body for seven days in a row, and she finally glimpsed a fragment of the truth. Her life had been written into a story, and she wasn't the protagonist. She was the wicked supporting character. The heroine was a wandering soul from another world inhabiting her cousin's body, and the hero was her husband, Emperor Liang. The two of them had been involved even before her wedding. Liang, then still a crown prince, had to abandon his true love and marry her so he could ascend the throne. Once the bastard emperor had power firmly in hand, he framed her father and brothers for treason to eliminate her, the "wicked supporting character," so his true love could become empress. Wang Xin was so furious that she rallied just before death and stabbed the bastard emperor. In her final moments, she regretted only that she'd been too slow to stab the heroine too. Then, She was reborn! - Once, Wang Xin's goal was to become an empress who helped a wise ruler and earned a place in history. But earning a place in history as an empress was just too hard, especially when you had a bastard emperor for a husband. Later, her goal became to become an emperor wielding absolute power over life and death. As for earning a place in history... Ha... I shall write history myself! Reader's guide: 1. The setting is fictional, partly inspired by the Song dynasty, with elements mixed in from other dynasties. Please don't nitpick the history. 2. The sovereign is reborn and turns dark. She's an ancient person. 3. The focus is on her career, with romance as a side plot. The sovereign stands alone. 4. Please keep things civil. The author will delete insulting or argumentative comments. If you don't like it, just click X. There's no need to tell the author. 5. Updates at noon every day, with extra updates at no fixed time, around 8 p.m. 6. 70% anti-piracy delay, 72 hours. Next story: Strength Overcomes Ten Skills Blurb: When Luo Qiao was born, she bit off more than a dozen of her wet nurse's nipples. A wave of her soft little hand left a maid's face swollen on one side. Her father exclaimed, "That's my child! Born with superhuman strength, just like me." So they named her Tieniu. When Luo Qiao was five, the northern enemy suddenly invaded. She was playing outside the village fort and had no time to get back and hide with her friends. Just as she was about to die beneath the enemy's blade, her superhuman strength burst forth. She picked up a huge rock and hurled it at the invaders, taking down a grown man with each throw. She became famous after that battle, earning high praise from the regional governor. When Luo Qiao was eight, she went with her mother to the capital to pay her respects to her grandparents at the Duke of Cheng's estate. Her cousins there laughed at her for being a bumpkin from the borderlands and banded together to bully her, only to watch her punch straight through a thick stone slab. Her cousins: "..." No messing with her. Let's get out of here. When she was fifteen, the northern enemy assembled an army of three hundred thousand and marched on them. It was clear a fierce battle was coming. Her father put on his armor and went to war, while her mother was consumed with worry. Luo Qiao told her younger brother to look after their mother, then secretly followed on horseback with her spear. At the most desperate moment of the battle, she charged onto the field And so began her life of campaigns across the land, culminating in her being made a prince despite her lack of royal blood. Theme: Stand firm in adversity, work hard to grow, match your abilities to your ambitions, shoulder the realm and its people, and ultimately become a great ruler of your era.