A Wicked Emperor and Empress: Entwined Branches

Strong heroine and hero + both leads are villains + devoted to each other + both have had no other partners One is an imperial prince shunned by the former emperor. The other is the daughter of a disgraced official, bearing the burden of her family’s destruction. They meet amid piles of corpses at a mass grave. She holds a bloodstained knife, her gaze colder than ever, yet when he offers her half a steamed bun, her expression softens for the first time. Xie Changyan promises to give her something better. Like the token of their love, it bears both their names.