Tīngwén Tàihòu Hé Tàihòu Shì Zhēn De?!

Jiang Shu was an ordinary graduate student in the history department—until an accident hurled her through time into the empire of Great Qi. Armed with a scholar's knowledge of how the past unfolds, she immediately grasps how precarious her new position is: the most feared figure of this era is Empress Dowager Qi Changning, a woman the historical record condemns as one of its most notorious villains. With her fate seemingly already sealed in the history books, Jiang Shu settles on a simple survival plan—throw herself at the empress dowager's feet and play the devoted, eager-to-please servant, hoping to earn protection and live out her days in peace. Yet the longer she spends at Qi Changning's side, the harder it becomes to reconcile the woman before her with the tyrant of the texts. As their contact deepens, the truth hidden beneath the written record slowly comes to light, and Jiang Shu realizes that this so-called demon queen may be nothing like the villain history made her out to be....