My Husband Is the Most Powerful Regent in the Realm

I am Lin Wanzhao, the Princess Consort of Regent Xiao Heng. I appear to lead a life of luxury, but in truth, I am merely a pawn he uses to keep Empress Dowager Lu Zhiyi in check. When the Empress Dowager killed the child in my womb with a cup of poisoned wine, he coolly dismissed it as nothing more than her way of testing him. My heart turned to ash, but just then, the System activated: if I die at his hands, I can return to the modern world. I pretend to obey while secretly gathering evidence that he and the Empress Dowager poisoned the late emperor and framed my Lin family. I also join forces with the sidelined young emperor, Xiao Jingyan, to set a plan in motion, using my death as bait. I take a fake-death drug and let him witness my “death” with his own eyes. As he falls apart, a palace coup erupts. In the end, they are convicted and sentenced to death by a thousand cuts, while I drink poison and “die” in his arms, returning to the modern world. A year later, the System tells me that he went mad and killed himself for me, she was subjected to a thousand cuts, and the new emperor never took an empress for the rest of his life.