After Giving Up the Throne, She Became the Empress Dowager

The eldest daughter of the Yuchi family is the wildest horse in Bianjing.

As a child, she knocked the emperor's most beloved young prince into a lotus pond, leaving him with a chronic lung illness.

Even as she grew up, she remained unruly, defeating every young man on the polo field.

When she reaches marriageable age, the emperor tells her to choose between the crown prince and Prince Wei.

The crown prince is her cousin, and he's been cleaning up her messes since they were children. By all rights, she should choose him.

But she refuses.

"Your Majesty, I choose Prince Wei. The crown prince deserves a dignified and virtuous wife. I'm too wild, and the palace walls can't hold me!"

Later, the emperor dies and the crown prince ascends the throne. She leaves the capital with Prince Wei for his fief, guarding the southern frontier on behalf of the emperor.

In the seventh year of Chengkang, Nan Chu launches an invasion.

Prince Wei goes to war and wipes out fifty thousand elite enemy troops. In the final battle, he dies in the Li River.

Nan Chu counterattacks. In mourning clothes, the Princess Consort of Wei takes to the battlefield and wins a costly victory.

The emperor summons the Princess Consort of Wei and her family back to the capital. She enters the city accompanying her husband's coffin, greeted by the people for a thousand miles.

After that, the widowed Princess Consort of Wei lives in the capital, keeping her doors shut and receiving no visitors.

One spring, peach blossoms spill over the courtyard wall.

The young princess sneaks out and wanders into a peach grove, where she meets an immortal.

The immortal asks her, "Little Princess, has your mother's heartache been cured?"

"No, it hasn't."

"Why not?"

"It won't be cured until the person who hurt my father is dead."

"Very well."

Also known as: A Brother's Wife Story: I'll Help My Sister-in-Law Kill My Older Brother

Theme: Justice above revenge.