Reborn from the Cold Palace, Step by Step to Empress

[Both leads are virgins + palace intrigue + face-slapping and crushing the villains + an emperor who says one thing but means another + a groveling pursuit of his wife.]

In her previous life, Fu Yunshu died miserably in the Cold Palace. In this life, she vowed to become the most doted-on woman in the imperial harem, so she set her sights on the emperor, whom she had never met.

She plotted carefully and won his favor, until the cold-faced ruler finally began to fall for her.

But then someone exposed her: she had never loved him at all. She had only approached him on purpose and pretended to care.

“You love him... don’t you?”

That night, as snow fell thick and fast, she stood outside the imperial study all night. He, however, held an umbrella over another consort and draped a coat around her before passing Fu Yunshu without a word.

He didn’t want her anymore.

Fu Yunshu had been heartbroken and sorrowful. She had explained and begged him to stay, but in the end, all she could say was, “I won’t... bother you anymore.”

But later, when enemy forces surrounded the capital, the opposing general took her by the hand to lead her away. For the first time, the cold-hearted emperor’s eyes reddened. “Fu Yunshu, if you dare leave with him, I’ll hunt you to the ends of the earth and never let you go!”

Chu Moxu never imagined that one day he would fall in love with a woman who had only ever pretended to care about him.

Even less did he expect that, years later, he would empty the imperial harem for her...