"Xiao Jingheng, this blade is payment for the ninety-seven lives you took from the Shen family!"
Shen Zhaoyu is reborn on the day of the imperial selection. Looking at her hands, their fingers still unbroken in the mirror, she gives a cold laugh.
In her previous life, she spent her whole life as a virtuous empress, only for her entire family to be executed and for her to die a miserable death after drinking poison.
In this life:
▸ She hides deadly poison in the emperor's favorite Longjing tea.
▸ She fights fire with fire, using the concubine's own specialty, witchcraft and curses.
▸ She even... deliberately leaves a scar on his neck during their intimate moments.
On a stormy night by the dry well in the Cold Palace, she faintly hears a familiar whisper, but cannot tell who it belongs to.
Friend or foe? Has he undergone some kind of change too?
The former court seethes with hidden currents, and danger lurks throughout the imperial harem. She proceeds with care at every step, seeking only revenge and the truth.
Until one day, she discovers that the cup of poisoned wine seems to conceal an even deeper secret...
(Double rebirth + revenge + political scheming. High stakes from the very first chapter, with a ruthless female lead causing trouble.)
The concubine who saw it sharply and confused was not the queen who lived in Kunning Palace. The concubine called her sister Zhaoyi. The imperial concubine also said that his father, Shen Yanzhi, wasn't his brother's name? The last name is also typed wrong. So messy
Wrong name, weird logic