WI the Princess Taiping inherits Wu Zetian?

IIRC she was Heiress Apparent for a time, but due to outside pressures empress Wu was forced to appoint someone from the House of Li (the Tang dynasty) as heir. Let's say this doesn't happen, for whatever reason.This will make female emperors more than just a unique phenomenon, and moreover - it has the potential to dethrone completely the Tang dynasty and replace it with the Second Zhou Dynasty.

What further ramifications to Chinese history might this cause?

EDIT: It appears I am wrong and Taiping was never heiress to Wu.
 
Princess Taiping was a member of the Tang imperial family, being the daughter of an Emperor.

Also, one of the things that helped Empress Wu was the fact that she was a widow and wasn't married any more. While a female huangdi has a precedent, there's no precedent for a woman becoming huangdi while still married. Princess Taiping's husband was still around at the end of Wu Zetian's reign and for a few years later.
 
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