Yinmei has unbound feet because the dowager empress decided to secretly stop binding the feet of the imperial women, so Yinmei as her great-great granddaughter has been spared. Then the original dowager empress died (her husband died 88 years ago), so in her place has secretly reigned a dynasty of women all pretending to be the dowager empress in order to push through legal changes to outlaw footbinding and change inheritance laws so women can inherit.
So Yinmei, the dowager empress's great-great granddaughter, is ALSO is the current dowager empress. And the book ends right after Yinmei has told the Shinian navy the secret to destroying the Pearl, and Yinmei is like, "Pearl is already doomed, Peasprout, so join me so we can use this opportunity to create a better Shin!"
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Date: 2025-01-28 07:20 pm (UTC)Yinmei has unbound feet because the dowager empress decided to secretly stop binding the feet of the imperial women, so Yinmei as her great-great granddaughter has been spared. Then the original dowager empress died (her husband died 88 years ago), so in her place has secretly reigned a dynasty of women all pretending to be the dowager empress in order to push through legal changes to outlaw footbinding and change inheritance laws so women can inherit.
So Yinmei, the dowager empress's great-great granddaughter, is ALSO is the current dowager empress. And the book ends right after Yinmei has told the Shinian navy the secret to destroying the Pearl, and Yinmei is like, "Pearl is already doomed, Peasprout, so join me so we can use this opportunity to create a better Shin!"