【Both Reborn + Possessive Pursuit + Feuding Rivals + HE】
In her previous life, Su Wanning, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, was forced to marry Gu Yanci, the powerful chief councilor and her political enemy. They treated each other with “ice-cold” civility, making them the least affectionate couple in the entire capital. In the end, she died in a power struggle. But in her final moments, she saw the man who had always seemed so cool and self-possessed holding her body. His hair turned white overnight, and he looked utterly mad.
Reborn, she returned to the time before the imperial decree arranging their marriage. Su Wanning was terrified. This time, she wanted only to break off the engagement, stay away from Gu Yanci, and protect her family.
But she never expected him to be reborn too.
The man who had been ice-cold toward her in their previous life now used every means at his disposal to cut off all her escape routes and keep her locked by his side.
In the throne hall, he knelt before the emperor and all the civil and military officials, begging for their marriage to be decreed.
“Wanning, I was wrong in my previous life.” The man’s eyes were bloodshot, his voice hoarse. “This time, even if I have to break your wings, you will never leave me again.”
Later, she gradually discovered that the downfall of her previous life had been about far more than a political struggle.
A vicious stepmother colluding with the empress’s maternal relatives, a palace banquet hiding a deadly trap, a deposed and wicked empress... As she peeled back the masks of her enemies one by one, she found that every clue pointed toward a terrifying organization called the “Heavenly Mandate Cult,” lurking in the shadows of the Great Qi Dynasty.
The plague in Jiangnan, unrest at the border, spies in the imperial court, even the mysterious death of Gu Yanci’s birth mother: behind them all lurked the strange emblem of the “Black Blood Vine.”
This was no simple revenge plot. It was a war that would decide the fate of the nation!
There are too many psychological descriptions, too many analysis paragraphs, the story moves slowly, and many sentences are written like poetry.