[Rebirth and Revenge on Scumbags + Love and Hate + The Powerful One Bows Their Head + Coercive Love + Unrequited Love]
(The leads join forces against their enemies. The powerful male lead bows his head, but his love goes unanswered.)
In her previous life, Shen Qing Rong and the Regent's sister married the same man.
The Regent declared, "My sister will never be a concubine."
So Shen Qing Rong was demoted to concubine.
Later, she was framed and died in childbirth.
The Regent didn't even give her a straw mat, saying only, "Take her away and bury her."
Shen Qing Rong vowed to make everyone who wronged her pay a thousandfold!
When she opened her eyes again, she was sixteen once more.
At a poetry gathering, she dragged the Regent's nephew into a lake with her.
At an exam in the academy, she claimed first place right in front of the Regent.
When her stepmother tried to marry her off to an old man, she sent her stepmother straight to her death instead.
The whole capital placed its bets on the First and Second Princes, but she alone chose the least favored Prince Changxing.
Everyone laughed at her for being blind, but she knew that in a few years this useless prince would wear the imperial robes, and she would become empress!
But when she finally reached the pinnacle of power, everyone called her a demon empress.
Three men: one urged her to give up power, one returned from the border to take her life, and one led a coup that drove her into a corner.
Forced to fake her death, she vanished.
After she was presumed dead, one of the three men searched the world for her, another drank himself senseless every day,
while the all-powerful Regent slept beside her corpse night after night. He had three thousand women in his harem, but not one could get near him.
They all thought she was dead.
None of them knew that the real Shen Qing Rong was wearing a mask, seated as the empress dowager of an enemy nation.
