No More Pretending, I’m Here to Chop Up the Dragon Throne

[Female-led revenge | play the pig to eat the tiger | redemption | marriage before love | everyone has a secret identity | absurd comedy]

[Defiant, secretly capable imperial princess x aloof, scheming orphan]

In her previous life, she rushed thousands of miles to save the emperor, only to realize at the moment of her death that the man seated high on the Dragon Throne was the real murderer of her mother.

In this life, she swore a blood oath: she would hack the Dragon Throne to pieces and make the dog emperor watch as he lost everything.

In public, she was the most outrageous of princesses, a pampered beauty renowned among the capital's noble families;

In private, he was the frailest young lord, a sickly beauty admired by all.

--

To avenge her mother, Zhou Hui had no choice but to propose to the young lord who was forever pretending to be weak.

And so the two frauds were forced together.

But gradually, she began to feel something was off. Why was Lou Qiege always clinging to her?

Oh no, was he trying to turn their act into reality?!

--

Her blade would never spill the blood of the innocent.

Those in high positions of power had no right to disregard the people.

No matter how great the hatred, the common people should not be made to suffer for it.

--

“I can sit on this throne too.”

“And what about you, my lords? Do you look down on women?”

“Then first, answer to the blade in my hand!”

--

When the ministers knelt and begged Princess Zhou Hui to ascend the throne, she personally pushed the imperial seal toward someone else.

“The Dragon Throne is too heavy, and there are too many debts of blood. What I want... is peace at dawn.”

Her gaze burning bright, she looked toward the man beside her, who had also cast off his disguise and stood ready for battle. “Lou Qiege, will you stay with me through this final stretch?”

“Gladly. We'll put an end to the war and, when victory is ours... go beyond the frontier and see the true desert smoke.”