Xie Wan never expected to be reborn on the very day she became empress and was left alone in an empty chamber.
Gazing at the vast, deserted palace, she resolutely refused to cry or make a fuss and simply lay down on the bed.
Before long, Jun Heng, the young lord of an enemy state, slipped in and crept up behind her.
Xie Wan woke up and looked straight at him. “Weren’t you coming to find me? Go ahead.”
Jun Heng stared at her in bewilderment. “What the heck? You’re just going to be that direct?”
In her previous life, she had been left alone in her chambers, watching helplessly as the emperor went off to another palace. In the end, she was branded a poisoner who schemed for favor, abandoned by her maternal family, and exposed as a fake daughter of the Xie family.
In this life, she no longer believed in the so-called exclusive favor of the imperial harem. She was determined to change her fate.
When the emperor told her to manage the consorts in the harem, she simply let them be.
When the Noble Consort urged her to fight for the emperor’s favor and stir up trouble in the harem, she instead helped the young lord Jun Heng plan his strategies.
When her maternal family told her to petition for their benefit, she packed her belongings and left for good.
At last, Xie Wan used her dismissal as empress and confinement in the Cold Palace as cover to escape.
Only after returning to her true homeland did she realize that her real life was just beginning
This is a dual-lead story. The male and female leads will cross paths, but they are not a canon couple.
