[A stunning beauty with masterful acting and a scheming mind VS a ruthless tyrant with a possessive streak]
What Jiang Yueqing wants isn't the emperor's favor, but the phoenix seal that can topple imperial power.
Wearing the guise of a little white rabbit, she uses the debt he owes her for saving his life as a child to lure the tyrant into a tender trap.
But she doesn't know that Xiao Che saw through her act from the very beginning.
He watches her go to great lengths to get close to him, playing along in one performance after another. Then, on the eve of the selection, he sees her laughing and chatting with the general who grew up with her. Only then does the tyrant realize:
He thought he was merely playing along, but he'd already fallen for her.
“Jiang Yueqing, playing dumb is an art.”
He leaves her with those words as he passes by, never knowing who is really acting in this game.
She deliberately “runs into” the general who grew up with her in the imperial garden. Her fingertips brush the red tassel on his armor, and her smile outshines the peonies at the palace banquet.
From the shadows comes the crisp crack of a jade ring being crushed.
That night, the general is abruptly dispatched to the frontier, while the emperor pins her by the waist against a dragon-patterned screen. “Qingqing, do you know what I hate most? Being used as someone else's weapon.”
“You want the phoenix seal? I'll give it to you. You want power? You have my permission.”
“But if you touch another man again...” Xiao Che bites the cinnabar mole at the back of her neck. The bloodstained tip of his sword lifts a severed finger from the ground. “The white jade tiles in this palace look best with blood on them.”
“I'll give you power, affection, and everything you want.”
“But if you dare give your heart to someone else, I'll destroy this world.”
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