A cool, detached, easygoing yet scheming goddess x a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless and unhinged emperor
Both pure + Each other's first love + Both powerful + Female-led relationship + 1v1 + Comeback and revenge + Mutual salvation.
All of the capital laughs at her, blind in her eyes and in her heart, picking up men at random to amuse herself.
They mock her for being a dissolute wastrel, even after her entire family was wiped out.
Little do they know that the boy she picked up and raised
will become the ruthless, eccentric ruler who holds all the power in the world.
As she gently strokes the boy's exposed throat while he tips his head back obediently, she draws on the divine
power that sustains her life.
But she doesn't see the mad desire in the man's lowered eyes: to imprison a god.
He is her most devout believer.
It's hard work writing this article. I'll give it to myself if I get the first good review. If you like Machiavellian Female Superiority, you can add it to your bookshelf.
Beautiful and captivating.