[Female Empowerment/Political Scheming/Men Competing for Her/HE/Rising to the Top]
Modern history PhD He Xi breaks the historical precedent that the Great Zhao never had a female emperor!
01
He Xi died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the daughter of an official, unloved by both her father and mother.
The Bone Book System that came with her told her, "If you disobey me and forcibly change your fate, you'll have to enter the cycle of reincarnation and start over!"
Unless she could make the Dou clan rule in the regent's place and have an empress take the throne, she might be able to return to the life she'd known.
She was Dou Shi.
He Xi summed it up:
Dou Sui's goal had never been to become a favored consort. She wanted to be the emperor!
In a woman's body, she'd ascend the throne and rewrite a millennium of male-dominated rules!
02
She stepped into Dou Sui's role and set about building her career.
After entering the palace, she established a women's school in the Ye Ting, teaching women to read and write, use an abacus, and do business. She then helped the puppet emperor defeat his political enemies and reclaim power.
Trouble! The emperor fell in love with her, but her heart belonged to someone else!
It didn't matter. Romance couldn't get in the way of her career. She had one condition: if she entered the palace, it would only be as empress. Otherwise, she wouldn't go!
03
As empress, she established women's courts, allowing women to bring legal action against their husbands' families, causing an uproar at court and throughout the country.
She elevated female officials from humble backgrounds, breaking the great clans' monopoly on the court and earning the hatred of the aristocratic families.
She also revised the laws, allowing women to inherit family property, divorce their husbands, and remarry. History recorded her reforms as "Emperor Dou's New Policies."
04 [Their stories are merely footnotes on her path to the throne]
Emperor Liu Yan was willing, on the eve of his death, to offer her the Imperial Jade Seal with both hands. "My whole life, I've been waiting for someone capable of bearing the weight of this empire."
General Huo Zheng loved her but could not have her. He was willing to fight at the border for ten years. "This subordinate's life has belonged to Your Majesty for a long time."
The powerful minister Cui Zhili had once been her political enemy, but during a confrontation at court, he whispered, "I am willing to serve Your Majesty for the rest of my life."
Theme: Female empowerment
[Orange Candy] Got it, the writing is good
You may think it is a group portrait novel. Will Dou Sui choose the emperor or Huo Zheng? I personally like Huo Zheng, but it's not impossible to be with the princess. The cp is stewed 🤩
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~