Summary
Feng Yi expects resistance when her father’s final edict makes her Great Hong’s first female emperor.
What she finds instead is a court ready to replace her, a mother plotting treason, and noble heirs who mistake old affection for weakness.
With the army in her hands and the disgraced Qu clan at her back, Feng Yi answers every insult with an imperial decree—and turns her enemies’ rebellion into the first step toward remaking the realm.