The Emperor Is Dead, and Now I'm the Prince's Beloved

(Both are each other's first + sweet romance + rise to power and revenge + forbidden tension + coercive love + love and hate + he chases her after the breakup)

(Delicate white-lotus heroine VS obsessive, unhinged hero: a tangle of love and hate)

Seven years ago, traitors falsely accused the household of Bai Yuling, the legitimate daughter of the Zhenyuan General's residence in the Kingdom of Chu. The entire family was executed, but Bai Yuling narrowly survived.

Seven years later, the Kingdom of Zhao is defeated by Chu. Princess Zhaoruo, the legitimate daughter of Zhao's emperor, is forced into a political marriage with Chu and ordered to wed its aging emperor, who is old enough to be her father.

Princess Zhaoruo refuses to marry him. Seeking revenge, Bai Yuling takes her place and marries the old emperor of Chu.

Years later, Bai Yuling returns to Chu and meets Chu Hanxuan, who had been betrothed to her since childhood. But he has become the envoy sent to escort her bride.

He is escorting the woman who was meant to be his bride to marry his father, making her his stepmother!

But on the night of the political wedding, the old emperor suddenly dies, and overnight she becomes his empress...