Not Knowing You

[Two Rebirths + Long-Laid Plans + Half Marriage Before Love]

A decisive young princess × a brilliantly gifted young general

In her previous life, beneath red palace walls and green-tiled roofs, a young man with sword-shaped brows and bright eyes made even the pear blossoms raining from the sky seem three parts less beautiful. Shen He was dazzled by him and threw herself wholeheartedly into the struggle for the throne. After years of hardship, she was left with both her children dead, her father and brothers brutally killed, and every member of the loyal Shen family wiped out.

Reborn, she tears the scoundrel apart and kicks the wicked woman to the curb. In her past life, they walked all over her and got everything they wanted. This time, she will make them wish they were dead beneath her feet.

She burns down Buddhist temples, intercepts hidden arrows, and secretly supplies provisions, turning the court of Western Chu upside down. She thought she was the one painstakingly plotting everything, never realizing someone had been there all along to cover her back.

Chu Yao tucks Shen He's hair behind her ear.

“Do you still not understand, Zhizhi?”

His eyes brim with emotions surging like a wave of heat.

“I have loved you in both our lives.”

Chu Yao unlocks Shen He's shackles, takes her hand, and slowly presses a kiss to it, reverent as if worshipping her.

“If you want revenge, I will become your blade. If you want to overturn this world, I will set the court and its people into a state of panic.”

“Look at me, Zhizhi.”

He climbs the three thousand steps of Dazhao Temple, bowing at every one until his forehead is bloody. If it means the woman he loves can be reborn, he is willing to betray the world.

[Content note: The heroine grows into her strength and has few advantages early on. The story is half revenge and half romance. The male lead isn't just a tool; he's the strategist behind her and her fiercely loyal little beast.]