Ruthless regent vs. a gentle-looking but ruthless yandere empress / a foreign princess with a blood feud / an insecure loyal advisor / a childhood-friend general. Fifteen years after transmigrating into the book, I became the regent princess, beneath one person and above ten thousand. In the sixteenth year, the system warned me that according to the original plot, the heroine Lin Yanyu would come to kill me, while my advisor Fu Changqi would pass letters for her, my imperial younger sister Xiao Jinnian would reserve the empress seat for her, and my closest friend Xie Ying would open the city gate for her herself. Lin Yanyu stood opposite me, and I stood alone opposite the four of them. They forced me to surrender power and said that if I did, they would spare my life. But I only smiled, turned around, and leapt down, smashing myself to pieces. My death escape succeeded. VIP chapters start the day after tomorrow, chapters 6 through 8; please collect and do not let it sit unread, QAQ. - Also known as: "The Empress and Her Ungrateful Wolves". "After I Faked My Death, the Whole World Kissed Me". "The System Told Me to Counterattack, and I Counterattacked All the Way to the Throne". Alternate setting, all private worldbuilding, no villains; different positions are not meant to be ranked against one another. A brain-off revenge power fantasy; do not examine the logic too closely. The main text is in third person.