The Emperor Hands Her a Blade: Empress, Who Will You Kill Today?

A slow burn. The male lead doesn’t get many scenes at first, but appears more often once he enters the palace.

One moment, Song Qilan was fighting zombies. The next, she had become the neglected legitimate daughter of the Chancellor’s household.

Her namesake had already been poisoned to death by the household’s powerful concubine, who served her a bowl of rice porridge laced with poison.

Since she had taken over this body, she would naturally avenge its former owner.

And so began her days of slapping the concubine with her right hand and beating up her useless father with her left.

This transformation caught someone’s attention. He needed someone just like her, decisive and ruthless.

From then on, she killed, and he handed her the knife.