After Giving Birth in the Cold Palace, the Assassin Empress Turns the Place Upside Down

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I, Ling Ye, was the world's number one assassin in my previous life, and I worked myself to the bone.

Now I've transmigrated into the abandoned empress in the Cold Palace. Fine. I'll switch tracks and keep working myself to the bone in this life!

From the start, I've been dealt a terrible hand: poisoned to the core, pregnant, under the cold gaze of a tyrant, and surrounded by concubines who want me dead.

But I've got a winning hand: assassination skills, the Reaper's Needles, my medical expertise, and a precious son born with the ability to read minds.

After three years in hiding, I faked my death.

When I returned, the martial world had a new untouchable: Her Highness, the Night Phoenix.

✔️ Secret identity: The richest woman in the realm. My Embroidery House shops span the land, and even the imperial treasury can't match my wealth.

✔️ Secret identity: The master of the Wind-Listening Tower, which knows the secrets of every official. Powerful ministers go weak in the knees when they see me.

✔️ Secret identity: The poison doctor who can save the emperor, or make my enemies die in ways that seem perfectly reasonable.

✔️ My greatest creation: My son. A cuddly little darling in public, a scheming strategist in private, and an expert at messing with his own father.

At the palace banquet, I appear in a blazing red gown, my son at my side.

When the tyrant, Nangong Ye, sees the child's face, his eyes instantly redden. He repents before everyone.

"Qingci, I was wrong! I'll give you the empress's throne and the empire. Please come back."

I cradle my little one and tap the man's face with a dagger, smiling as if my grin were coated in poison.

"Your Majesty, you're being foolish again."

"Your empire? My son and I will come and claim it ourselves."

I've already stoked the flames of your desperate bid to win me back. I'm laying the bricks on the road to your death.

[Reader's Guide]

◆ One-on-one romance, devoted couple, happy ending

◆ The strongest, most unhinged heroine. She outsmarts everyone from start to finish, and would rather fight than talk.

◆ Her little schemer of a son is her greatest ally. Mother and son team up with no hesitation to con his dad.

◆ The tyrant's desperate pursuit reaches its peak. He chases her until he ends up on his knees at the imperial mausoleum.