The Talented Lady Turns the Tides: Reborn, I Take Control of the Six Palaces

In her previous life, Su Tan was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's household. Her half-sister schemed to send her into the imperial harem, where she went from a favored Talented Lady to a prisoner. Only before she was poisoned to death did she learn that Emperor Xiao Chengyu had long loved her deeply, but her misunderstandings and schemes had utterly broken his heart. Reborn on the night she was first named a Talented Lady, Su Tan uses her memories of her previous life to avoid every trap: she silences the Empress Dowager with honey-preserved lychees, uses Persian brocade she saw in her previous life to deflect the emperor's probing, and exposes the flaws in her half-sister's forged letters when she is framed for an affair with an outside official. As she face-slaps everyone who schemed against her, she gradually discovers the emperor's fondness for sweets, hidden beneath his violent temper. The two go from testing each other to sharing their true feelings. In the end, Su Tan rises through the six palaces from her humble rank as a Talented Lady and joins hands with Xiao Chengyu to uncover the truth behind the massacre of her family, making every villain pay for their crimes.