The Life of Zhou Pei: The Guilty Daughter's Revenge Can Wait Twenty Years

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[Coming of Age + Strong Female Lead + Political Intrigue + Comeback + Team Growth + Nonstandard Power Fantasy]

Previously titled: The Tale of Zhou Pei / How a Scheming Empress Was Made / To Take Revenge, She Became Empress

No rebirth, no transmigration, no System

Zhou Pei, an illegitimate daughter of the Zhou family, is mixed-race. Her birth mother is General Wang, the Sand Python King of the grasslands, and her father is a great general who conquered the northern barbarians for the central kingdom. With parents of such distinction, Zhou Pei should have had a carefree life.

Who could have known that the Zhou family would be framed by wicked men, leaving the family ruined and its members torn apart, with no hope of recovery?

"A Gui... don't mourn for me. Keep fleeing west... You must avenge us..."

These were her mother's final words.

Zhou Pei's world came crashing down. From that moment on, she would become her own sky.

Here's the question: How many steps does it take for a traitor's daughter to become empress?

Zhou Pei: Three.

Step one: Serve her sentence diligently and clear her criminal status.

Zhou Pei managed to cut her six-year sentence down to three and a half years.

Zhou Pei: Don't ask. It was a combination of luck and skill.

Step two: Hide her identity and enter the court as an official.

The fearsome Wolf-Slaying Army is led by a woman.

When the Wolf-Slaying Army goes to war, nothing is left alive in its wake.

The enemy is beaten into submission, and even its generals lead the way in surrendering.

Zhou Pei: I sit in my tent, and generals fall from the sky.

The enemy panics: Why does this woman's army keep getting bigger the more we fight?

Step three... Ahem...

When it's the chosen one's business, how could you call it... that?

The ministers: There has never been a woman who became emperor since ancient times!

Zhou Pei: Then I'll be the first.

Theme: The lone king stays out of romance and builds a beautiful Dong Kingdom.