After Becoming a Good-for-Nothing: The Special Agent's Legitimate Daughter Goes on a Killing Spree

[Face-slapping + strong female lead + satisfying revenge + scumbags get what they deserve]

Night Owl, a shadow operative, is betrayed by her partner. When she opens her eyes again, she has become Ye Qingci, the discarded daughter of a marquis’s household whose spirit contract is shattered.

Her parents died in battle, and her elder brother lies unconscious. She swears, “I’ll make every last one of them pay for the lives they took from the Ye family!”

At the gates of the imperial city, she twists a guard captain’s neck with her bare hands, her cold gaze striking fear into the court.

But she unexpectedly walks into the schemes of the First Prince, Gu Chenzhou. “Work with me and I’ll help you get revenge. I promise you the empress’s throne.”

She accepts with a cold laugh, unaware that this game of mutual exploitation has already planted the seeds of a deep and dangerous love.

He helps her wipe out her enemies, and she helps him put down a rebellion. At her enthronement ceremony, he tells her, “You are the only one I will love for all my life.”

Yet he turns around and throws her into the imperial prison over a royal secret.

“Deposed Empress Ye Qingci, for colluding with rebels, shall be executed at Soulbreak Cliff!”

When she sees her elder brother die on the execution ground trying to save her, she clutches his body and cries out through her bloodied tears, “Gu Chenzhou, from this day on, we are finished!”

When she returns once more, she points her sword at the imperial city. “You owe me for what you did back then. Today, I’ll make you pay with your empire!”

He surrounds the city with his troops and begs her, eyes bloodshot, “Qingci, can’t we start over?”

But she points her sword at his heart. “Too late. Your remorse can never make up for the loved ones I’ve lost!”

From mutual exploitation to a love that runs bone-deep, from a bitter, irrevocable parting to blood for blood: in this battle of imperial power and love, who will win redemption in the end?