The Banners Teach Me to Be Empress Dowager

The Virtuous Empress Deng Sui premieres, and viewers are buzzing: "You can tell from the title she's a brainless, sweet, saintly Mary Sue. Trash!" "I hate brainless sweet girls. They're useless and rely on the male lead and luck." When she first enters the palace, the empress makes life difficult for her. "She'll definitely sob and wait for the male lead to save her. Boring." Deng Sui: The empress is deposed, and her entire family is exiled. "Holy crap, she goes dark and strikes back right from the start!!!" The emperor dies, and she has a long-standing grudge against the crown prince. "The heroine will definitely suffer through all kinds of indignities without wavering, then move the crown prince with her love and kindness. He'll realize his mistakes, and they'll have a cheesy happy ending." "So cliche. Can't the director try something different?" Deng Sui: Depose the prince and install a new ruler. "Holy crap! She's really that ruthless!!!" She rules as regent, and the noble clans and court officials plot a coup. "I get it, I get it! With her brains, she'll lure them into a trap. After the officials and noble clans fall for it, they'll regret everything, be won over by her abilities, and swear undying loyalty to her! It'll be so satisfying!" Deng Sui: Put them to death. Exterminate the three clans of everyone involved. "Holy crap!!!" Floods and mountain torrents, hail and gales, locusts and drought. Countless people are dead or injured. The Xiongnu invade from the north, the Western Regions rebel, the Qiang and Rong ravage the land, and pirates run rampant. Internal troubles and external threats come one after another. "Ah... Is big sis going to marry off a princess to a foreign tribe and make a temporary alliance? QAQ" "Sob, someone as tough as her shouldn't have to endure this!" "Damn heaven, this is so unfair! Damn barbarians, taking advantage of the crisis!" But then... She slaughters the Xiongnu in the northern deserts, crushes the rebels in the Western Regions, exterminates the Qiang and Rong in Hexi, and puts down the pirates on the islands. The Xiongnu surrender, the Western Regions submit, the Qiang and Rong cede territory, and the pirates are wiped out. The empire expands by more than eighteen hundred li! Deng Sui: Marry into a foreign tribe? Hah. Only the Xiongnu prince serves me. "!!!" Deng Sui is often surrounded by a chorus of voices. The empress insults her, and they tell her to be kind. The crown prince bullies her, and they tell her to be magnanimous. The court officials and noble clans move to depose her, and they tell her to forgive them. When internal and external crises hit, they tell her to endure. But she... Deposes the empress, casts out the prince, executes corrupt officials, quells the threats, and achieves unparalleled accomplishments! A woman can have a heart of iron, too. Watch her mend the shattered heavens with her own hands! #TheBarrageTaughtMeToBeEmpressButImEvenMoreBadassThanTheBarrage# #WhoNeedsAGoldenFingerWhenIAmTheGreatestGoldenFingerOfAll# Theme: When I can hold up the heavens with one hand, I should do so, and make my might known throughout the world.