The Reborn Consort Goes from Bratty to Sweet, and the Emperor Is Pleased

[Both leads are each other's first in this life and the last; helplessly caught in their circumstances; mutually harboring secret crushes.]

Consort De is reborn on the day of the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet. She accuses Consort Rong of carrying another man's child, but when the accusation fails, she's stripped of her title and demoted to Jieyu.

Only after dying in her previous life did she learn that she was merely a wicked supporting character in a book: a crucial character penned by the author, a tool who constantly opposed the heroine and framed Consort Rong, prompting the emperor to help Consort Rong at every turn until she fell in love with him.

After committing countless misdeeds and causing Consort Rong to lose her child, she ends up banished to the Cold Palace and forced to drink poison.

Even after death, her soul is trapped in the palace, where she must watch Consort Rong and the emperor live happily together.

Reborn, she comes to her senses. To protect her father and brothers, she keeps her distance from the emperor and Consort Rong, planning to spend the rest of her life in comfort and luxury within the palace.

(In her previous life, Consort De did plenty of bad things. Because she loved the emperor, others manipulated her into becoming jealous and repeatedly framing Consort Rong, which led to Consort Rong losing her child. After being reborn, she has lost some of her memories, and some misunderstandings will be cleared up.)