Schemes of the Pearl in the Palm

[Reborn + careful, clear-eyed revenge + top noblewoman vs. all-powerful, dangerously obsessive regent] In her previous life, Shen Que devoted herself to her family and helped her fiancé, the Third Prince, ascend the throne. But on the eve of her coronation as empress, he and her half-sister joined forces to frame her as a remnant of the deposed empress's faction. Her entire family was executed, and she was forced to drink poison, dying beneath a vast fall of snow. When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the age of sixteen, on the eve of the Hundred Flowers Banquet her family is holding to celebrate her engagement to the Third Prince.