In his previous life, he saw her save him just before he died. Thinking she was one of the conspirators, he hated her to the very end.
Reborn, he is consumed by hatred and swears to take revenge, reclaim his empire, and make her suffer.
Reborn as well, she regrets her past actions and swears she will never again offer advice to the incompetent prince. All she wants is to become his empress.
On the night she attends him, he grips her chin, his gaze vicious. “Did you think I didn’t know you helped that traitorous younger brother plot against me?”
Tears streaming down her face, she kisses his fingertips. “If Your Majesty does not believe me, I am willing to stake my life on a plan to draw the snake out of its hole.”
Watching her stain the palace steps with her blood as she takes a deadly hidden arrow for him, he finally realizes that she was the one who saved him in the mass grave in his previous life all along.
