[Sweet-faced but ruthless beauty × Scheming, seductive power broker | Two formidable rivals × High-stakes twists]
At her coming-of-age ceremony, Jiang Tong's own family forced poisoned wine down her throat and kicked her into the freezing river.
Reborn, she carried deadly rouge in her left hand and used a book of fate in her right to read people's hearts, smiling as she dragged the entire Jiang household into hell.
Everyone called Chief Counselor Pei Yan a virtuous minister who would save the world. Only she knew he hid a blade beneath his prayer beads, using a merciful face to mask a killing scheme.
When he gripped her throat and said, “A calamity like you deserves to be put to death,” she tore open his bloodstained official robe. “Lord Pei, the scar from your regicide and usurpation is showing.”
On the night the realm fell, Jiang Tong drove her sword through Pei Yan's heart, only to see him smile as he unfurled a bloodstained book of fate. “The dynasty I usurped and the noble families I slaughtered were all to pave the way for you to save the world.”
She returned as an avenger, only to become the prophesied demon star destined to destroy the world.
When he offered her the realm as a betrothal gift, she said, “I never wanted to be empress.”
