Throughout the Great Yao Empire, everyone said the legitimate princess was ruthless and best left alone.
She framed consorts, killed her siblings, and murdered her father and mother.
All she cared about was power.
When the emperor fell ill, the legitimate princess seized control of the court.
Everyone thought she meant to become empress in her own right.
Yet no one expected that when the new emperor ascended the throne, it would not be her.
The young, handsome regent took the throne alongside the young prince, while the eldest princess vanished.
No one knew that the once-arrogant legitimate princess was confined in the regent's manor, unable to take a single step outside.
“Rong Xi, our ties are severed! The next time we meet, it will be kill or be killed!”
That night, Rong Xi's hair turned white with snow, as if he had aged overnight.
When they met again,
Rong Xi wore a long, elaborate black robe and carried a black-and-gold Tang saber as he walked toward her, step by step.
“Your Highness, have you decided? Which of you will live, you or the prince?”
Chu Wansi lay on the ground, barely alive. She smiled. That was enough.
A beautiful, scheming princess who lives for her ambitions × a restrained, peerless fighter of a guard who became regent
