Atrocious - Empress

Traditional histories (written by the male scholars she bypassed) accuse Wu of:

Almost every "atrocious empress" is accused of sexual promiscuity. Wu Zetian had "male favorites." Empress Messalina (Rome) supposedly ran a brothel. These accusations are rarely provable. They serve to discredit the woman’s political authority by reducing her to her body—a woman controlled by her appetites cannot rule rationally. atrocious empress

Genre: Dark Fantasy / Political Thriller Logline: To save a dying empire from its enemies, a benevolent princess sacrifices her soul to become a monster on the throne—only to find that her own people now pray for her death. Traditional histories (written by the male scholars she