The Empress Is Reborn, and the Great Villain Has Arrived

In her previous life, Song Shiying was born to a concubine. Though she had lost the ability to bear children, she secured her place as empress and devoted herself to helping her adopted son become crown prince. The emperor praised her as a virtuous empress, her elder half-sister thought of her as a good younger sister, and her aunt called her the Song family's greatest benefactor. But after the crown prince moved into the Eastern Palace, she was placed under house arrest. When her half-sister, now empress dowager after the prince ascended the throne, forced her to drink poison, Shiying finally learned the truth.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the year her half-sister entered the palace as a consort.

In this life, the half-sister who had become a noble consort in her previous one entered the palace as the lowest-ranking concubine.

The woman hailed by the Empress Dowager as the Song family's greatest benefactor was determined to bring the Song family to ruin.

The virtuous empress praised by the emperor set one trap after another to overthrow imperial rule.

When the truth came to light, the emperor, bedridden and gravely ill, asked her, “A Ying, can we start over?”

Shiying wiped the tears from the corner of his eye and smiled.

“Your Majesty, this is the fate you and I were given.”

“It's either you or me.”

A certain someone who commanded the army looked at her. “Yingying, if you wish it, I will follow you forever.”

Shiying smiled, her gaze intent. “Even if I rule from behind the curtain on behalf of a child emperor?”

He replied, “This court, this world, all of it means less to me than you.”

“I am willing.”