Chapter 481 - 472: Best Actress 39 (6,000 words - )_4
After the situation was settled, Ding Xinxian had no choice but to expertly curry favor with the Emperor to improve her life. With her intelligence, after just one night of favor, she made the Emperor delighted and was directly promoted to Talented, surpassing the concubine, the Imperial Concubine, and Bao Lin, a rare privilege.
Although becoming Talented came with the Emperor’s favor, Ding Xinxian deeply hated the Empress. If she wanted to become a concubine, she could have done so by encountering the Emperor a few times based on her abilities. She simply didn’t want to waste her time in the harem, filled with schemes, living like a caged bird, so she thought about leaving the harem to find an easy-to-control man to marry.
Unexpectedly, after avoiding so much, she mistook a fool for a clever person, making all her efforts to leave the palace futile.
From then on, the transformed Ding Xinxian overthrew the concubines, caused the Empress’s downfall, manipulated the Emperor to make herself the Empress, and intervened in the previous dynasty. She ensured her child was made Crown Prince, and decisively ended the Emperor’s life when he discovered she caused the Empress’s death, enabling her young son to ascend the throne while she took control of the court as Regent.
She enacted a massacre against the royal family’s kinsmen, leading to the depopulation of the Royal Family. She used cruel officials to manage the arrogant and tyrannical noble families, gaining merits but going to extremes, resulting in the wrongful deaths of numerous aristocratic nobles.
She ordered the opening of numerous academies and established academy fields, replacing tuition with book copying and farming, enrolling poor students. She also ensured the poor students didn’t forget the hardships of agriculture, allowing them to study. She lightened labor duties, reduced taxes, and let the common people rest, aiming to ensure everyone could fill their bellies.
She held her son firmly in check, and even after his death, when passing the throne to her grandson, she never relinquished power, maintaining control until her death. Her life was a mixture of merits and demerits, but her merits outweighed her faults, establishing a prosperous era.
After the Regent Empress aired, it unsurprisingly became a hit! Initially, it was in the poor rankings of the teens, but by the middle and later stages, it consistently occupied the top spot. After the broadcast ended, the TV station started replaying it in a loop, and the online viewership exceeded 300 million, making all the participating actors famous!
Among them, the lone star Ning Shuangshuang became extraordinarily popular! She finally became an A-list star, with numerous loyal fans, unlike the ephemeral fame she received after her first portrayal of Qin Shuangshuang.
Having watched the Regent Empress, her loyal fan Meng Meiqi passionately tapped away at her keyboard, starting to write an extensive review.
"After watching the Regent Empress, my only impression is that this director is a breath of fresh air, standing out in a sea of naive female leads by bringing a unique narrative style that doesn’t hide the lead’s cunning."
"It’s not that no director has ever shot a series with Ding Xinxian as the lead, but without exception, this historically notorious, scheming Empress Dowager is always portrayed as a naive woman, lacking originality. Although after watching this series, I devoured history books and became a fan of Ding Xinxian, also recognizing her as a kind person who loved her people, it is undeniable that she is kind to the common people, but can be cruel to the royal family and noble families."