Past Life: Faye Stirling, a concubine, failed in the imperial harem power struggle. She accompanied Prince Nolan to the throne but was abandoned and executed for lacking tactics. Granted Rebirth, Faye Stirling plans to avoid tragic fate. She builds her own power, abandons naive romance, disrupts Prince Nolan's plans, claims the Empress Consort Seat, and Rules as Imperial Matriarch.