The Concubine's Strategy: Winning Your Heart Step by Step

A mistress plotted against her from behind the scenes. As she fell from the building, she thought the embrace her fiancé refused to release until death was the end of their destined love.

When she opened her eyes, she had become the Sixth Miss of the Prime Minister's residence, yet the mark of a proposal ring was strangely engraved on her ring finger...

Her stepmother was vicious, the servants beat her mercilessly, her elder sister stole the crown prince who had once cherished her, and her birth father had not looked her in the eye for ten years.

Like an ant, she was about to be tossed into a mass grave, when she unexpectedly saw the man who had loved her deeply in her previous life. He held the eldest daughter of the Duke's residence in his arms and smiled indulgently. "Let them watch! Who can stop me from kissing my fiancée?"

For the sake of that one glimpse, she fought to survive, only to be coldly scolded by him for using her injuries to curry favor and seduce the crown prince.

"Don't argue with me about whether you're right or wrong. I have no interest in dealing with it."

His fiancée was even more vicious and domineering. She grabbed her by the hair and slammed her against a carriage, kidnapped the miracle doctor who had come to treat her, and even sent assassins to kill her.

He was her fiancé, and the emperor's most beloved son. She absolutely could not stand by and let a wicked woman lead him astray.

He was arrogant, so she personally taught him a lesson.

He was clumsy, so she patiently guided him.

His values were crooked, so she successfully set them straight.

She fought her stepmother, punished her elder sister, and won her father's affection.

She struck back at every enemy who had harmed her, and petitioned for an imperial decree posthumously granting her wrongfully deceased mother the title of the Prime Minister's secondary wife.

She defied fate and became the most envied woman in the capital, all so she could be worthy of him.

Yet he said:

"Su Qingli, I only treated your injuries to make it up to you."

"Su Qingli, we can never be together. I am destined to marry Murong Jingfu."

"This is the last time. I won't come see you again."

She became engaged to the Third Prince, and he tore up the imperial decree in a rage.

She eloped with a guard, and he rode after her and brought her back, punishing her "change of heart" in the gentlest way.

She met with the crown prince, and he angrily gave her the cold shoulder for two months.

She thought she had finally succeeded, but he held his childhood friend, who had faked a pregnancy and pretended to miscarry, and left her stranded on a high platform in full view of everyone, letting her bear the blame for "causing the death of the imperial heir."

Only then did she see clearly that between them lay a sea of blood and hatred, family feuds, his two elder brothers, and a vast distance...

* * *

The throne changed hands, and her entire family moved south. There, she discovered that he had become a wanted criminal under the new emperor...

Holding a torch in a dark forest surrounded by poisonous miasma and venomous snakes, she looked at him with a delighted smile. "I knew you couldn't be dead..."

She saved him and helped him, pouring all her heart into easing the hatred and resentment in his heart and helping him seize the throne.

But he said, "Su Qingli, you said you'd do anything for me. If I asked you to become Yuwen Ji's empress and spy on the enemy, would you be willing?"

She wasn't willing. But when she met his eyes, she couldn't refuse.

He said, "If you don't want to, you can just say so. Tell me what's in your heart. I won't blame you."

Dressed in her bridal gown, she took Yuwen Ji's arm and smiled brightly, simply because she owed him too much from her previous life!

"You should congratulate me. From now on, I am your sister-in-law. I'll do my best to be a good empress of Northern Zhou."

For some reason, he went on a killing spree...