Shocking! The Deposed Princess Has Become Emperor!

[Reborn for revenge + political intrigue and power struggles + mutual salvation]

[Cold-blooded princess bent on revenge x obsessive, ruthless eunuch. Two powerful leads join forces to rule the world.]

Zhao Ning died on the eve of her coronation.

Her childhood sweetheart and fiancé sent her off with a cup of poisoned wine. Only as she lay dying did she learn that her gentle, kind-hearted half-sister had long been carrying the prince consort's child.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of fifteen, still the discarded princess from the Cold Palace whom everyone could bully.

Looking at her young face in the mirror, Zhao Ning smiled.

This time around,

Her hypocritical fiancé wanted to use her to climb the ranks?

Then she'd ruin his reputation and make sure he never recovered!

Her fake-white-lotus half-sister wanted to steal her match?

Then she'd personally marry her off to a sixty-year-old feudal prince!

Her wicked step-empress wanted her dead?

Then she'd first let her taste the betrayal of her own kin!

From abandoned girl in the Cold Palace to princess regent, Zhao Ning planned every step.

Until one day, the ruthless Ninth Prince of the Eunuchs, whose power eclipsed the court, suddenly pinned her against the palace wall. His fingertips brushed the red mole on her neck, and his voice turned hoarse.

“Your Highness, your eyes... look so much like those of the fiancée I lost ten years ago.”

Zhao Ning sneered and pressed a dagger to his heart. “You have the wrong person, Governor of the Eastern Depot.”

He chuckled and kissed her earlobe. “Then allow me to court you all over again.”

Later, in the Hall of Supreme Harmony,

Zhao Ning, clad in the imperial robes, looked down at the assembled officials kneeling before her, and at the man who had slaughtered the imperial clan and drenched the palace gates in blood for her.

“Xie Guyun,” she asked, “what reward do you want?”

He raised his eyes, a madness-like obsession hidden within them.