[Devoted couple + reborn + palace and household intrigue + satisfying revenge]
Xu Huayu spent her whole life as a lowly, obedient concubine-born daughter. Only when she died miserably in a dungeon did she learn that she was actually the prime minister’s legitimate daughter.
Back then, her mother, the prime minister’s wife, and Concubine Zhang gave birth at the same time. Concubine Zhang secretly switched her own daughter, Xu Huajin, with Xu Huayu. From then on, Xu Huajin stole Xu Huayu’s life, becoming the esteemed legitimate daughter and the object of everyone’s admiration.
Xu Huajin disdained her admirer, the Fourth Prince, for his low birth, so she drugged Xu Huayu and schemed to make her spend a night with him.
The Fourth Prince treated Xu Huayu wonderfully on the surface, but Xu Huajin was the only one he loved. Xu Huayu worked tirelessly to help him ascend the throne, but the first thing he did after becoming emperor was strip her of her position as empress and make Xu Huajin empress instead.
Xu Huayu died by suicide in the dungeon, consumed by hatred.
Reborn, she exposes the truth about Concubine Zhang’s switch of the legitimate and concubine-born daughters, dragging Xu Huajin down from her lofty position and into the mud. Stripped of her noble identity, Xu Huajin can only marry the Fourth Prince. But the Fourth Prince refuses her outright, claiming he has seen through Xu Huajin’s false virtue, then eagerly comes forward saying he wants to marry Xu Huayu. Xu Huayu only sneers. You two rotten people can stay together forever!
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Twins have long been considered ill omens. Several years ago, the empress gave birth to twin sons. The elder twin was named crown prince, while the younger, Yuchi Lingyuan, was secretly sent out of the palace to fend for himself in the bitterly cold northern frontier. Yuchi Lingyuan thought that would be how he spent the rest of his life, until he rescued Xu Huayu from an avalanche.
