Empress Wu Zetian Killed Her Children In Order To Become China’s Only Female Ruler
Ambitious or power hungry? Was empress Wu Zetian — China’s only female ruler — truly as evil as the history books say? Wu Zetian. Image: Wikimedia Commons The favorite concubine of the Chinese emperor has just given birth to a baby girl. Instead of seeing her child, she sees an opportunity. Hoping to dethrone the current Empress Wang and take her place, Wu Zetian takes her baby into her arms for the last time, and strangles the infant. She proceeds to blame the death on Wang, which isn’t hard to do since the emperor believes everything Wu — described by critics as “hated by gods and men alike” — says.
