Reborn with a Book of Sins: Everyone in the Eastern Palace Is Guilty

In her previous life, Xie Mingzhao, the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor’s household, married into the Eastern Palace. She trusted the Crown Prince Xiao Chengyan’s gentle words, helping him secure the Xie family’s reputation as a respected scholarly clan and taking the blame for one dirty scandal after another on behalf of the Cui clan, the imperial in-laws. She became empress, yet held no real power in the inner court. Her maternal family was falsely accused of treason, its women exiled, and her elder brother died in the imperial prison. Then, amid a raging fire in the Cold Palace, she heard the Crown Prince himself say that from beginning to end, she had been nothing but a pawn shielding the Cui clan. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three days before entering the Eastern Palace. Her wedding gown was not yet on, her mother was still alive, and the Xie family had not yet been dragged into the abyss. She had also awakened with an old, blank ledger. If someone was destined to die within three days and their fate was tied to hers, their name would appear in the book, accompanied by a red annotation listing their crime, cause of death, and clues to those involved. The first name to appear in the ledger belonged to a maid serving her, who was about to be silenced. The maid was hiding a clue to the sachet that had left Xie Mingzhao childless in her previous life.