Not quite in time for Valentine's Day, it's an episode about possibly the baddest bitch to ever exist: Wu Zetian! The only female emperor in Chinese history, Empress Wu ruled in her own right, which is cool, but to get there, she had to murder a bunch of people, which is less cool. Also featured: a LARPing crown prince, the statue of a fallen dancing boy, dueling concubines, a nunnery turned whorehouse, and an alleged murder that was probably just an elaborate setup for a really bad sex joke.

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Sources: Jonathan Clements, Wu: The Chinese Empress who schemed, seduced and murdered her way to become a living God https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/