The Empress Is a Black Lotus: Climb the Tyrant and Crush the Scoundrels

(Also titled: The Stratagem of Quezhi)

[Not a Pure Relationship | Rivals in Love | Strong Heroine, Satisfying Revenge | Reborn and Crushing Scumbags | Everyone Is Evil | Matched in Strength | Love and Hate Entwined | A Scoundrel's Sincere Heart | An Unconventional Palace Intrigue and Power Struggle]

[Seductive, Serpent-Hearted General's Daughter and Poisonous Empress vs. Scheming, Mad, Short-Lived Tyrant]

Born into a family of generals, she trusted the wrong man in her previous life. In the end, she lost her young child, and her entire maternal family was destroyed.

Her husband, whom she loved with all her heart and who held the highest office in the court as Marquis Xuanping, had been plotting against her all along. Every step was part of his scheme. His vows of eternal love were nothing more than vile tricks to pave his way to glory and reunite him with the woman he had always cherished.

Once she saw through his deception, she handed him a divorce letter on the day he married another woman, then ended that absurd life in a blaze of fire.

Unexpectedly, when the tyrant in the deep palace, feared by all who heard of him, learned of her death, he immediately ordered the entire Marquis Xuanping estate slaughtered to join her in death...

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Reborn at a time before the tragedy began, she personally and irrevocably severed her affection for the man she once loved. No longer obsessed with romance, she focused solely on seizing power and plotting her revenge.

She began to plan each move carefully and took the initiative to approach the tyrant, who kept others at a distance and was as unpredictable as he was capricious. Matched in strength, they tested and challenged each other, entangled in a ceaseless tangle of love and hate.

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From the moment she entered this palace of countless gates, she secretly vowed that this time she would settle accounts with everyone who had ever humiliated or wronged her.

“What good are titles and noble birth? I want... power over the entire court!”