Palace intrigue, a groveling pursuit of his wife, a scheming and sickly beauty, a heroine who never holds back, and a System
In her previous life, Shen Ning and Zhao Hengzhi fell in love. She married him in a lavish procession and devoted her entire clan’s strength to helping him ascend the throne.
When war broke out on the borders, Shen Ning waited with her pregnant belly for her husband’s return, only to hear the legendary love story of him and another woman, one that moved heaven and earth and brought the world to tears.
Only as she lay dying did she realize the truth: she was merely the heroine of a storybook, and Shen Yao, who had transmigrated into the book, had stolen all her luck and killed her.
Karma is inescapable. Shen Ning is reborn as the transmigrator’s sickly younger sister, determined to make her taste the bitterness of being abandoned by everyone.
She schemes at every turn, first monopolizing the emperor’s favor, then interfering in state affairs, forming factions for personal gain, and finally throwing the harem into chaos and ruling from behind the curtain!
System 886 is horrified.
“Host, weren’t we supposed to fix the storyline and become the emperor’s cherished favorite again? Why did you overthrow the domineering emperor?”
Shen Ning smiles faintly.
“There are too many favorites in an emperor’s heart. I’d rather be the emperor.”
The new God of War, Prince Jin, is a peerless talent with power over the court, but he’s getting on in years and still hasn’t married or taken a concubine.
Later, Prince Jin meets the emperor’s newly favored Consort Chen at a palace banquet. Everyone praises her as peerless.
He only sneers. “Affected and pretentious. She’s just another common beauty.”
Later, Prince Jin climbs into that consort’s bed…
“Just another common beauty? Come on, A-Zhan, say it again…”
