A Lifetime of Splendor

She entered the capital at ten, married for political reasons at sixteen, and was widowed at twenty, left to raise her son alone. The choices she made in her youth became arrows years later, striking Jiang Shaohua right between the brows. Heartbroken and resentful, she died with her eyes wide open. When she opened them again, she had returned to her youth. Without hesitation, she set out on a path utterly different from the one she had taken in her previous life. Step by step, slowly but resolutely, she pressed forward until she reached the pinnacle of power! In this life, her fate would be in her own hands alone. She would make the world listen quietly to her voice. [Power Struggles and Nation-Building in a Chaotic Era, Empress]