A Stand-In Takes Her Place? She’s the Mad Tyrant’s One True Love

[1v1, both leads are virgins + Palace Intrigue + High-Stakes Push and Pull + The One Who Got Away + Unhinged Ghostly Emperor]

Everyone knew the emperor had a beloved woman, but beautiful women had always been short-lived. After Consort De died, the already possessive emperor completely lost his mind.

Night after night, he held Song Qingning's corpse, dressing her hair and telling her how much he missed her.

Xie Yuzhi slaughtered everyone who had hurt her, turning the person who had tried to assassinate Song Qingning into a human pig and tormenting them day and night.

He held Song Qingning's corpse day and night, saying things that were disturbingly obsessive.

He was truly insane.

He thought his fate with her had ended, but three months later, he saw a woman who had just entered the palace.

She looked so much like her!

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Song Qingning was both helpless and afraid.

First, she had been reborn in the imperial palace with her original appearance.

Second, her mission was to win over the unhinged emperor, Xie Yuzhi.

Song Qingning was frightened by Xie Yuzhi's true nature. She had planned to keep her head down and survive until she could leave the palace. But at the start, a matron picked on her and raised a ruler to strike her.

She was slight and wearing only a thin robe. She had planned to endure it, but when she looked up, she saw the familiar emperor in black.

"You want to die!"

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"You are my Ning'er."

"Ning'er, Ning'er, I miss you so much."

"Ning'er, you've finally come back. We'll never be apart again."

Xie Yuzhi was convinced that Ning Yaoyao was Song Qingning, but she wouldn't admit it.

Xie Yuzhi let her go, but when he saw the little palace maid growing close to the Prince Regent, he completely lost control.

He kept her by his side, day and night.

If others thought Song Qingning was a ghost, then he would be Song Qingning's ghostly lover, clinging to her endlessly, never to part.