Reborn, I Was Imprisoned by the Emperor I Killed with My Own Hands

Two Male Leads + Both Reborn + Happy Ending + Imprisonment

A sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, deranged tyrant gong vs. a patient, world-minded minister shou

Xie Yan died at the hands of the person he loved most.

He was a tyrant who ruled with an iron fist, yet gave all his tenderness to Shen Yan.

He abducted Shen Yan and brought him into the palace, locking him in a side courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Yet he couldn't bear to break Shen Yan's proud spirit, and could only plead softly with him: “A Yan, won't you look at me...?”

But Shen Yan wanted freedom and hated the palace prison even more.

On the night of the palace coup, he personally drove a jade hairpin into Xie Yan's heart. As blood stained the dragon robe, he heard the tyrant laugh with a sigh: “So be it... Dying by your hand is better than watching you escape.”

Reborn three years earlier, the first thing Xie Yan did was break Shen Yan's spirit and lock him in a side courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

In his previous life, he couldn't bear to make Shen Yan give himself to him. In this life, he simply took Shen Yan by force.

With red-rimmed eyes, he dragged him into the Imperial Study, gripped him by the nape, and pinned him against the imperial desk. “Wasn't it Minister Shen's wish to escape? I'll let you run to your heart's content, ”

Shen Yan had also been reborn.

In this life, Xie Yan hated him to the bone, yet Shen Yan willingly let himself be imprisoned, thinking: If I die at his hands this time, at least I'll die fulfilled.

As that day played out again, Shen Yan grasped the bloodstained jade hairpin and drove it toward his own heart.

“Your Majesty, I return this life to you.”

Xie Yan kissed his bloodstained lips in front of everyone. “I don't want your life in return. I want you to share this empire with me!”

Later, the official histories recorded this “absurdity” in fine detail:

The tyrant tore apart the rules of propriety and split the Imperial Jade Seal in two. “From this day forward, I appoint Shen Yan Prince Regent and crown him empress. We will rule this empire together!”

“I hate that you usurped the throne, ”

“, and hate even more that you'd betray me, yet never betray this realm.”