Shangguan Wan'er: Female Prime Minister Through the Ages

This is an epic poem of Shangguan Wan'er's prosperous Tang Dynasty in which power and intrigue are intertwined, talent and fate are entangled. When she first entered the palace, she was a humble maid in Yeting; Serving Emperor Wu, she is the emperor's mouthpiece; Living in Zhaorong, she is in charge of the world's edicts and has the handle of the court. From the orphan girl of a guilty minister to a heroine prime minister, she refuted the memorials of hundreds of officials, the poetry and prose of the world were waiting for her to judge, and the power of the military and state circulated through her pen. But in the chess game of imperial power, all living beings are pawns. During the night of Tang Long, holding a candle at the palace gate, she held the imperial edict to clear her mind and observed Li Tangchen's festival; Emperor Ming pressed his sword, frost formed on the steps, and he spoke to slay the soul, deciding life and death. A close friend buried her with an inscription: "Pearls sink and round are broken, jade is broken into pieces." The prime minister wrote a preface to her collection: "The talent is unparalleled, and the two dynasties are uniquely beautiful." She has been involved in the intrigues of the imperial power for half her life, and a beauty of a generation has left her talent for eternity. The brush of history can be sharpened, but the truth is immortal. The stone tablet has not been changed, but it has been judged for thousands of years.