In her previous life, Lin Wanwan gave her heart to the crown prince, only to discover on her wedding night that her husband had betrayed her with her younger sister. She met a tragic end: both she and her child died, and her phoenix wedding robe was stained with blood. As she lay dying, she finally remembered the figure who had always watched over her from the shadows: Zhao Heng, the powerful regent, who had once offered her a final way out.
Reborn at fifteen, before any of it had begun, Lin Wanwan cast off her lovestruck disguise, leaving only a blood-chilled glint in her eyes. In this life, she would personally shatter the hypocritical crown prince’s dreams of inheriting the throne, expose her scheming sister’s fake facade, and make everyone who had wronged her pay in blood.
As she plotted her revenge, she kept crossing paths with the cold-faced regent. He still watched her in silence, yet came to her rescue when she was in the greatest danger. He remained restrained and proper, but in his eyes surged a deep love she had never understood in her previous life.
It was only when she investigated an old case that she found a room covered in paintings. Every one depicted her in her previous life: smiling brightly, riding and hunting, and even... in her final moments. In the corner of one painting, a few words were written in a sharp hand: “I will have my revenge, or I am no man.”
It turned out that while she knew nothing, someone had given everything for her; after she died a horrible death, someone had bathed the Eastern Palace in blood for her.
“Zhao Heng,” she said, her eyes red as she caressed his cheek. “In this life, let me be the one to come to you.”
Keywords: A powerful duo joining forces, intense romantic tension, past and present lives, the male lead groveling to win her back (the other way around), political scheming and sweet romance
