[Cool, aloof beauty vs. reborn tyrant / mutual salvation / the whole family pays the price / clear-eyed heroine / hero falls for her on his own]
The merciless, ruthless tyrant Duan Qi was reborn.
In his previous life, after he died, Empress Shen Jianyu, with whom he had shared a loving marriage for their entire lives, eloped with the grand secretary!
She even said on her deathbed, “In my next life, I don’t want to enter the palace again.”
Duan Qi was livid with rage.
Given another life, all he wanted was to ask that wretched woman what gave her the nerve to cuckold him!
He resisted her and loathed her, yet he couldn’t control himself from approaching her and making excuses for her. Only in the end did he realize how little he had understood her in his previous life.
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After her family abandoned her while they were fleeing disaster, Shen Jianyu, the marquis household’s true daughter, finally understood: from now on, she would seek no family affection. She would only take back everything that belonged to her!
Her adoptive sister wanted her parents, brothers, and fiancé, and wanted to send her into the tyrant’s harem to die?
Shen Jianyu felt neither sorrow nor joy. She had no need for those laughable relatives. She was determined to use the new emperor’s power to rise to the top and claim wealth and glory.
But why did the emperor, rumored to be capricious, keep sneaking glances at her?
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At first, Duan Qi approached her with malicious intentions, thinking of the brilliant children they could have together.
In the end, the emperor, who prided himself on having neither heart nor feelings, fell deeply in love with her and could only beg her to spare him a little affection.
No matter how many times Shen Jianyu distanced herself from him, he kept going after her:
“Jianyu, please love me.”
Very good. Very well written.