[Reborn and Swapping Marriages] [Court Intrigue] [Sole Favorite in the Later Story] [Feel-Good Story] [Golden Finger]
Su Wanmo and her legitimate elder sister, Su Yurao, are both reborn.
In her previous life, Su Wanmo married Zheng Shaohua, a poor scholar, and wore herself out helping him rise to the rank of powerful minister. She became the youngest woman ever to receive a first-rank imperial title. Her elder sister, Su Yurao, entered the palace as a noblewoman but died tragically in the Cold Palace.
Reborn on the day their engagements are arranged, her sister takes her "promising husband" from her with red-rimmed eyes, then smiles as she pushes Su Wanmo toward the selection list. "It's your turn to enter the palace, little sister."
Su Wanmo lowers her eyes and smiles faintly.
She knows better than anyone that beneath Zheng Shaohua's talent lies an arrogant nature, and his family includes a parasitic mother-in-law and a troublemaking younger sister. Without Su Wanmo carefully paving the way for him at every turn, her sister won't take a single step along his road to success.
Meanwhile, in the palace, the emperor, Xiao Jingheng, is young and handsome, and the empress's seat is vacant. Opportunity is everywhere.
Men? She has never trusted them. What she wants is power above all others and wealth no one can take from her.
What is a first-rank imperial title worth? In this life, she will wear the phoenix crown and take her place in the central palace.
Only after entering the inner palace does she realize the game is more devious than she imagined:
Consort Hua, gentle and understanding, is a woman who has transmigrated into a book and already knows how the story will unfold. The aloof and proud Jieyu has bound herself to a favorite consort System that lets her see the emperor's favorability score.
Su Wanmo rolls her fingertips together. It doesn't matter. Anyone who blocks her way can be cut down.
She conceals her sharp edge and advances cautiously, but gradually discovers that the emperor, whose thoughts should have been impossible to read, is looking at her with an increasingly intense gaze. He even silently offers her a blade before she can make her move.
