[Reborn, devoted couples, cultivation, mind-reading] Hua Taoxi was stabbed through the heart by the scumbag regent in her previous life. Now she has been reborn.
What regent? What best friend? Stay away from me.
What, you want to be a benevolent ruler who works hard for the people? Don't make me laugh.
Wouldn't I still end up being cursed as a bringer of disaster, a demon emperor who throws the world into chaos?
Having lived another life, she decides to stop trying and let things fall where they may. She spends her days gossiping and slacking off with Father Heavenly Dao, making a name for herself as the demon emperor who has reigned for a thousand years.
The first thing Hua Taoxi sees upon opening her eyes after being reborn is the white jade pendant at the waist of her loyal maid, Huanhuan:
[Oh, my poor Huanhuan. She devoted herself to helping her young mistress’s dear friend Fu'er, only to be murdered without even leaving a whole corpse.]
Hua Huanhuan turns around and gives the little maid eighty slaps, then abandons literature for martial arts and takes to settling things with her fists.
Hua Taoxi glances over at Eunuch Chen beside the throne and sighs:
[Eunuch Chen, your sweet little apprentice is plotting to take your position as chief eunuch, and here you are smiling away.]
Eunuch Chen's expression changes. He turns around and has the trusted young apprentice beside him thrown into the dungeon.
As Hua Taoxi keeps making snarky comments, she realizes that, somewhere along the way, the more she acts like a demon emperor, the more the ministers and commoners revere her.
[Huh? Hey, that's going too far with the shrine over there!]
[Could you take a good look? Does that statue even look like me?]
[One shrine would be bad enough, but why does every family have one in its ancestral hall?]
I don't know why, just messing around with my time