The Crown Princess’s Funeral

Li Liwan, legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Dingbei, married Ouyang Zhen, heir to the Prince of Zhenbei, in her previous life. She threw the full strength of her clan behind his bid for the throne. On their third wedding anniversary, he divorced her on charges of treason and left her to be hacked to death in a mass grave, all so he could make her half-sister Li Ruoyao his principal wife. Only as she lay dying did she learn that Ouyang Zhen had also been reborn. Carrying memories of his past life, he thought he could make amends, never realizing that Li Liwan had already been through hell once before. Reborn three months before her engagement, she vowed to make Ouyang Zhen experience the fall from grace himself. She exposed her half-sister's schemes and married her off to the enemy from her previous life. She seized every opportunity Ouyang Zhen was meant to have, making his path to the throne more difficult at every turn. Then she engineered the exposure of his birth mother's crimes, reducing mother and son to prisoners. When Li Liwan made a dazzling second marriage to Xiao Xuanyuan, the disabled imperial uncle who had collected her body in her previous life, Ouyang Zhen finally realized that he, too, had been reborn. But each time he thought he could win her back, Li Liwan used his “remorse” to make him destroy with his own hands the things he treasured most: his power, his dignity, and even the beloved woman he had protected all his life. In this life, she would drive him mad with remorse while she watched coldly from the sidelines, joining hands with the imperial uncle to overturn the realm.