A Body Worth a Thousand Gold

After Xie Shiqing was betrayed by both her childhood sweetheart and fiancé and her younger half-sister, a twist of fate married her off to Liu Yunting, a poor scholar. Unloved by her husband in the inner household, she lived in misery until she entered the palace and became an attendant to Her Majesty the Empress, where she could finally put her talents to use. Reborn, she took the initiative to change the course of her life. Though, just as in her previous life, she was married off to the Liu family in someone else's place, she did not leave the palace. Instead, she became a trusted confidante of the late emperor. She weathered the turbulent struggle to support a dragon and seize the throne, the rivalries of the inner household, and the battles of the imperial court, becoming the foremost female official to serve the late emperor, the new emperor, and the Empress Dowager. In the end, she became Nanyu's first female chancellor.

Theme: How can a woman attain social standing, career success, and family happiness in an ancient feudal, patriarchal society?