The Wicked Woman Is Reborn: I Rule the Palace, You Get Slapped

[Scheming, captivating princess vs. mad dog of a man at her feet] [Villainess reborn × madly devoted loyalist + political intrigue + rivalry for her affection + raising him] Yu Jiangli was the most infamous princess in history. Spoiled, jealous, vicious, and useless. Only after she was pierced through the heart by a thousand arrows did she learn that her whole life had been nothing but a stepping stone for her younger half-sister. So after being reborn, she focuses on just three things: making money, gaining power, and making her green-tea sister cry. Her sister’s childhood sweetheart? She flirts with him until they fall out! Her sister’s confidant? She steals him away until he switches sides! She deliberately sets her sights on the man her sister has always wanted but could never have, and throws the whole pond into chaos. Virtuous and gracious? Not a chance. Sisterly affection? Not acting it. The respectable elite condemn her as shameless, and the world calls her a mad, wicked woman. But no one knows that when she keeps visiting the residence day after day, she isn’t looking at the moon shining high above the clouds. She’s looking at the lowly bastard son curled up in the mud of the back courtyard, his eyes as wild as a wolf’s. She teaches him to read, shows him the art of political maneuvering, and feeds his ambition. She drags him out of the mud. Bit by bit, she tempers him into the sharpest blade. Later, the grand mansions collapse, and the old nobility are reduced to ashes. The insignificant nobody she once raised becomes a monstrous beast. He looks up from the abyss, then crawls on his knees before the dragon throne to reach her. “Your Highness, it seems you never told me why you chose me.” “Because,” she says, bending down to trace his brow and brush away the blood, “you and I are alike. We’re accomplices, too.” “And what if the one I’m plotting against is Your Highness?”