The identity you have after being reborn is one you choose for yourself.
Chen Yuan, lost in her older brother's image as a doting sibling, had everything taken from her and was ultimately made a scapegoat, dying with her head and body separated.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to a time before any of it happened.
She claimed first the bronze mirror her brother had taken from her in her previous life, binding it to herself and gaining the divinely bestowed talent skill [Three Obediences and Four Virtues].
She also seized first the connections and opportunities that had helped her brother reach the pinnacle of power in her previous life.
She told the future emperor, "I'll save your mother. In return, you'll make me a princess someday."
The moment Zhao Wangchuan saw Chen Yuan, he activated the skill [No One Is More Upright Than Me]. "All right."
Years later, he was ruler of the realm, and she had become the powerful princess with her own fiefdom, just as she'd wished.
But he regretted it.
"Yuan'er, how about you stop being a princess and become my empress instead?"
Chen Yuan: "First, turn off your skill [No One Is More Upright Than Me]. Then we can talk about it."
Zhao Wangchuan silently turned it off.
Chen Yuan fell silent. What a tyrant, working so hard to maintain his image as a benevolent and virtuous ruler!
