Plotting to Conquer the World, How Can He Resist Her Radiance?

[Alternate Three Kingdoms setting: Wei, Shu, and Wu | Both leads are reborn | Childhood sweethearts | Love and hate]

The crown princess who was poisoned to death in her previous life has become the enemy crown prince’s unattainable first love in this one?

When Shangguan Jinghong, reborn, kneels and offers her the realm as a bride price, Nalanyueying smiles and presses the Tiger Tally against his heart:

“Your Highness, do you know that a realm stained with my blood will burn your hands?”

Nalanyueying, the jewel of Shu, showed mercy once in her previous life, and lost her country and family for it.

Her childhood sweetheart, the crown prince of an enemy state, granted her death with a cup of poisoned wine.

He imprisoned her as a slave, abused and tormented her night after night, then sat upon his throne, convinced he felt no tenderness.

Little did he know that only after she was gone did he realize how deeply he longed for her, and how lonely he was.

Reborn, they meet again. He pursues, she flees; she imprisons him and laughs; he surrenders, while she seals away her heart.

In this life, she vows to tear away Shangguan Jinghong’s jade-gentle mask and use the schemes he taught her in their previous life to turn the Three Kingdoms’ chessboard upside down!

The sharpest blade is always the gentleness wielded by the one who was once subdued.

[Deadly Temptation]

Shangguan Jinghong: “Please, look at me just once more.”

She tosses the brocade into a brazier. “A heart that comes too late is better burned to warm the wronged souls of the underworld.”

[Iconic Comeback]

“You think I want the empress’s throne?”

Yueying tears apart the dragon-and-phoenix wedding candles, hides poison in the nuptial cup, and hooks an arm around her enemy’s neck with a smile:

“What I want is to burn the Three Kingdoms to the ground and rewrite history!”

[Final Judgment]

On their wedding night, as the palace burns, three men scream her name in the sea of flames.

Standing on the Phoenix Terrace, Nalanyueying smiles faintly:

“Don’t rush. Get in line on the road to the underworld, and you can all repent one by one.”