[1v1]+ [Empress]+ [Early story: play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger assassin × love-struck, jealous prince] [Mid-to-late story: scheming, ambitious mastermind × loyal general who knowingly falls into her trap]
To her half-sister: “Timid? Cowardly? Me?” Silly sister, I'm an assassin who kills without batting an eye!
To her younger half-sister: “Save you? Isn't all this your own fault? Why should I save you?” With that, she leaves without hesitation.
To her father's concubine: “It's too late to beg for mercy now!”
To her father: “Father, I've come to take your life!”
When Gu Jingzhan first met Yu Ruoqing, he remarked, “Another dull, sheltered young lady.”
But in the blink of an eye, she surprised him by swinging a pipa and smashing it to pieces.
The next time he saw her was three months later. He had been wounded by an arrow that came flying out of nowhere. He followed its path and found her trapped in a giant pitfall.
“Was that your arrow?”
“Yes.”
Gu Jingzhan turned to leave.
Yu Ruoqing shot an arrow at him, precise and merciless, and ordered, “It's poisoned. Save me.”
Gu Jingzhan: “...”
Everyone said Third Miss Yu was frail, a sickly girl who couldn't even look after herself.
Gu Jingzhan raised an eyebrow and gave her a meaningful look. “So very frail and helpless!”
Her mother died tragically, a concubine took her place, and her twisted father controlled her for eighteen years. Her half-sisters persecuted her, and society oppressed women. She would settle every score!
A certain young grand tutor: “You want to be emperor, and I want to usurp the throne. We're of one mind, my fake younger sister!”
A certain prince, first saying, “His Majesty and I are as close as can be!” then declaring, “That fool of an emperor! I'll lead troops into battle for you!”
