[Light political scheming / working together for a great cause / SC / dual rebirth] After being reborn, the consort joins forces with the villain who destroyed her family in her previous life
In her previous life, Yu Xi timidly struggled to survive and achieved nothing. Three years after her kingdom fell and her family was destroyed, she died of illness in a residence arranged by the man who had killed her father: Duan Qiang, the Ninth Imperial Uncle in name.
Reborn, Yu Xi reflected on the causes and consequences of her past and faced the future emperor, Prince Changying Duan Qiang, who would one day wield absolute power. She warned him coldly, “If Ninth Imperial Uncle is disrespectful to His Majesty again, I will not let it pass.”
Yu Xi tried to avert tragedy. She urged the emperor to govern diligently and stood against Duan Qiang, hoping to steer the country back on course. Yet she could only watch as this worm-eaten edifice of a state collapsed.
Emotion was hard to read in Duan Qiang’s dark eyes. “Xiao Xi, blindly following convention and clinging to the old ways won’t work for this country. Nothing can be built without first tearing things down. We have to overthrow it.”
In his previous life, Duan Qiang seized power and usurped the throne for his own gain, at any cost.
He believed that his feelings for Yu Xi were nothing more than a sense of duty toward her and a promise he had made to her father, not romantic love.
Reborn, Duan Qiang looked at her fresh, pretty face and stubborn expression. His sinister eyes concealed a fierce, profound longing.
All he wanted was to give Yu Xi a better future.
“May I ask whether Your Highness would take me in?”
“If Your Highness is willing to work with me toward our great cause, it would be my honor.”
A note for readers: The protagonists are not related by blood!
