The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest: The Minister’s Daughter Is Poisonous

She was the prime minister’s only legitimate daughter, yet schemers branded her cursed. Not only did a lowborn girl brought in by a concubine steal her wealth and glory, she also tricked her out of her betrothal.

Her beauty was incomparable, and she was sent to the palace to become the empress of a tyrant. Then rumors surfaced that she had lost her virtue before marriage, and she was cast into the Cold Palace, where she suffered bestial abuse.

Reborn, she returned transformed, with blood on her hands and vengeance in her heart! Wearing a face both innocent and stunning, she watched those around her perform like clowns, her gaze cold and mocking.

She seized control of the family, fought the concubines, killed her half-sister, and crushed every demon and monster. In this life, no one would deceive her again, not even by a hair.

Her former fiancé, whom she had long since given up on, came to visit every few days. She had only one thing to say: “I’m breaking off the engagement!”

She declared that in this life, she would not fall in love, give her heart away, enter the palace, or become empress.

But in the end, she could not escape fate’s design. The unbreakable red thread had long since wound itself around her.

He said, “I want this empire, and I want you too, Lu Zhenzhen! If you’re not part of the empire I rule, then even if I must trample over countless corpses and bear a lifetime of infamy, I’ll take you back.

I want you in my life, in my bones, in my very flesh and blood.

If you want to leave, I’ll go with you to see every mountain and river. If you want to stay, I’ll be with you for all time.”