Scheming, domineering princess who becomes empress + jealous, unhinged general who goes from pure moonlight to dark lotus + revenge + missed chances + pursuing him + push and pull + aggressively demanding love
Wu Yong Changyue ruled as empress for ten years, died young, and was then reborn.
In her previous life, as the third princess of the Wu Yong Kingdom, she was nearly wiped out on her wedding day when her fiancé’s family led troops to massacre the imperial palace.
Only she and her nephew, who was not yet a year old, survived and escaped the palace.
To wipe out the whole family, her fiancé hung the bodies of her father, mother, brothers, and sisters on the city gate to lure her out.
To keep her family’s bodies from being trampled, she cruelly set them on fire.
Hunted down, she fled all the way to the northern frontier.
At the northern army camp, she fought her way up step by step, vowing to kill her enemies with her own hands and avenge her family.
Eight years later, with the northern army’s help, she stormed the imperial capital and killed her enemies and her former fiancé.
That same year, she ascended the throne and became the first empress in history.
Ten years later, an old illness returned, and she died young.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back at fourteen, the year she had just been betrothed.
This time, she struck first and planned carefully, ultimately making her former fiancé’s family suffer the consequences of their own actions and sparing her family the horrific fate they had met in her previous life.
Along the way, she also shamelessly flirted with the young general who had never married for her in her previous life and spent the rest of his days keeping watch beside her grave.
It's okay, but the male protagonist has too few roles, almost like a supporting role. And if you read it as a power story, it feels a bit more daily. If you read it as a daily sweet story, it feels like the male and female protagonists don't get along much, so it can't be considered a sweet love story. The good thing is that the heroine was reborn as an empress. She lived to be nearly 40 years old in her previous life and was an empress for 10 years. After being reborn at the age of 14, she still maintained the character of a little girl and did not pretend to be an empress. She was good to everyone around her and just wanted to be a happy princess. She was also quite lively. This is different from many revenge and rebirth stories, which is a good thing, but the content needs to be improved.