The Harem's Reborn Revenge Plan

Reborn, with the Entire Harem Helping Me Slay the Dragon

When Yixiu awoke, she was clutching Chun Yuan’s jade pendant.

She remembered the emperor squeezing her throat last night and saying, “You’ll never measure up to your sister.”

But now, Huafei was fussing over her meal. “Your Majesty, I tasted this bowl of abortion medicine for you.”

Duanni, dragging her sickly body, handed over a list. “Evidence of the Nian family’s crimes. Please take a look, Your Majesty.”

Even An Lingrong whispered, “The incense I’ve made can give him nightmares every night.”

Zhen Huan even stopped her in the imperial garden. “Your Majesty, in this life, shall we slay the dragon?”

Meanwhile, in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the oblivious emperor was still muttering, “Why has Yixiu been looking more and more like Chun Yuan lately?”

Yixiu choked awake, her throat burning with pain. Even worse was the agony in her neck, as if those iron-grip fingers from last night were still embedded in it, ready to crush her vertebrae one by one. She sprang her eyes open, but all she saw was the dim, soft canopy overhead. Its embroidered dragons and phoenixes were blurred in the faint morning light.

This wasn’t the leaky roof beams of that ramshackle room in the Cold Palace.

She gasped, like a fish out of water, her hands clutching wildly at the brocade quilt. Her fingertips touched something cold and hard. She gripped it and lifted it before her eyes: a piece of creamy-white jade, smooth and gleaming, with a winding streak of blood-red inclusions at its center. Her pupils contracted sharply.

Chun Yuan’s jade pendant. Not long after Yixiu married into the prince’s household, her elder sister had come to visit and left it on Yixiu’s dressing table. Later, much later, it became one of the damning pieces of evidence that she had plotted against the imperial heirs and was utterly heartless. Whenever the emperor looked at her, it was a reminder of the loathing and coldness in his eyes, a feeling that never thawed.

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