【Scheming, bewitching empress dowager x possessive, unstable tyrant | forbidden romance | love and hate】
On the way to my wedding, I received a notice that I was to be buried alive with the deceased. I set my sights on the new ruler, who had murdered his father.
As the whole court knelt, I slipped my bloodstained silver hairpin into his palm. “Your Majesty, please pin up my hair for me.”
He pinched the bloodied tip of the hairpin and chuckled. “Trying to climb into my bed?”
That night, he bit my earlobe and warned me, “Make a sound, and I'll have every servant in your palace's hands chopped off.”
It wasn't until I panted beneath the vermilion annotations on his imperial desk that I asked, “Is regicide fun?”
He dipped his brush in my blood and rewrote the imperial edict. “It's changed to killing the empress now.”
【Before you read】
The heroine is a calculating beauty who knows how to draw men in; the hero is an obsessive, unhinged romantic. A power couple in a faux mother-son relationship, with an older woman and younger man, locked in a game of extreme push and pull.
