After being manipulated to death under the guise of “doing what’s best for her,” the pliable empress is reborn. This time, she’ll never let her family twist her around like putty again! She alone is destined to be empress. With a few words and a smile, she wins the dark and calculating emperor’s heart. Together, emperor and empress rule, proving that women can hold up half the sky.
A noble young master, her cousin, the emperor: she wants to be more than the woman they cherish in their hearts. She wants to be the pure, radiant moon in everyone’s sky!
In her previous life, Liu Meiyue was schemed against by her birth mother and her maternal relatives, and made a stepping stone for her cousin, Li Nanzhi. As the daughter of the prime minister, she should have been empress.
But on the day she was to enter the palace, her cousin took her place, while Liu Meiyue was sent to the marquis’s manor to bring good fortune to its dying heir! The marquis’s household forced her to consummate her marriage with its illegitimate son, and she bore an heir for the family.
She waited in vain for three days, only to hear that her father had been assassinated and that Li Nanzhi had become a favored lady in the palace. Her mother abandoned her at the marquis’s manor and never gave her another thought...
After being reborn, she resolved never again to be her cousin’s ladder to success or her mother’s obedient daughter! Let the prime minister’s family fall into ruin; let them mistreat her!
She would make everyone who had wronged her pay in blood and flesh!
She would rather wrong the whole world than let the world wrong her!
Trust? If even her own mother could scheme against her, how could she trust anyone else? Better to make them her willing servants, her possessions, and put them to work for her!
“Truly the most beautiful woman in the capital, a hundred times better than those beauties in the brothels. What a pity: a body that should have entered the palace as an imperial consort is now being sent to bring good fortune to a dying man.
Come on, be a good girl and let me give you a little pleasure.”
Hou Ping’s vile words made Liu Meiyue feel sick.
He was the eldest son born to a concubine in the marquis’s family, and had never been valued.
He gambled, drank, and caroused, and was a regular at gambling dens and brothels. Rumors often spread that he had played household maids to death, earning the contempt of the nobility.
