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No discussion of an atrocious empress is complete without , the only official female emperor in three millennia of Chinese history. Rising from a low-ranking concubine in the Tang Dynasty court, she systematically orchestrated a bloody ascent to the throne, eventually declaring her own Zhou Dynasty.

And Seraphine realized, with a cold plummet in her chest, that she had not created obedience. She had created a desert. There was no one left who wanted the empire. No one who wanted revenge. No one who wanted anything at all except the small, silent act of survival. atrocious empress

For those wandering the lower levels of Hell, the lesson is simple: if you hear the chittering of the hive or feel the air grow heavy with the weight of her presence, you are already in the domain of the Atrocious Empress. And in her court, mercy is a foreign tongue. No discussion of an atrocious empress is complete

: Her atrocities included severe beatings, burning hands, freezing victims to death in winter snow, and biting flesh from their bodies. She had created a desert