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>>44146195
>Flips conspiracy board to the other side.
She's both. However, all her wise counsel and intelligence has been geared towards one objective. Putting herself in a position where people rely on her to the point where she can do LITERALLY ANYTHING and get away with it with next to no repercussions.
She convinces everyone to move to the moon, away from the impurity, and helps them set up a culture and government that would buckle under the slightest hint of so-called impurity. She likely had predicted the First Lunarian War before Yukari ever thought of eliminating the agitators in early Gensokyo. So she made sure that the force of youkai could get through, knowing it would scare the Mooninites even more. Then, when she got bored of the moon, she instigated both the Ten Suns event - drawing the ire of Awesome Shirt Goddess in the process - and the subsequent exile of her and Hou Yi, who likely wound up dead because he was a possible liability.
Her brief sojourn back on Terra Firma lets her set up ANOTHER enemy of the moon (Junko), while getting her in touch with Kaguya, who turns out to be as much a fan of terrestrial life as she is, making her an excellent piece in Yagokoro's chess game.
The Second Exile, to Gensokyo, was her penultimate, but perhaps most devious, step in freeing herself from anyone wishing for her return. Killing the Emissaries and having Kaguya lock Eientei away from the prying eyes of the Moon likely convinced the Lunarians - now fully terrified of the impure land - that nobody, short of expendable slave rabbits, should go down there, ever. Which is why Reisen fled there.
Imperishable Night was a test, running with a theory she likely came up with following the arrival of Udonge. The theory being that she and, to a lesser extent, Kaguya could actually rejoin the normal timeframe of Gensokyo without being accosted by the moon. And that theory was proven correct, although the presence of Sakuya initially spooked her until she realized the maid had forgotten she was an emissary.
HOWEVER, she knows that there are still two possible pawns in play, Hecatia and Junko, and waits to see if anything comes of that. But until then, she builds her power base, making not only the residents of Eientei, but the Human Village and a small portion of the youkai, dependent on her medical knowledge.
Imagine her - incredibly pleasant - surprise, when the moon sends two very expendable, easily "corrupted" rabbits to beg and plead for help from the residents of Gensokyo. So she sends Reisen along with some drugs that prove incredibly useful to the protagonists - including Reimu, the shrine maiden IN CHARGE OF KEEPING GENSOKYO FROM SHITTING ITSELF OUT OF EXISTENCE - when they go up against the Chang'e Slaughter Squad.
Fast Forward to today. She's now one of the biggest behind the scenes players by proxy - usually Reisen, sometimes Tewi and the other rabbits - with ties to : the Hakurei, Yukari, the SDM, the Human Village, as well as a modicum of power and authority over her old patsies on the Moon, the Watatsukis.

Tl;dr - She's still intelligent and wise as Omoikane, but it's all for the sake of Numero Uno(Chang'e).