Can't Become the Crown Princess? Then I'll Be the Crown Prince's Stepmother!

One-line summary: To save my own skin, I became the Crown Prince's stepmother. To get revenge on the person who had badmouthed her birth mother behind her back, Jiang Hua pushed them into the water. But that person turned out to be the Crown Prince's beloved, and he held a grudge against her and hunted her down relentlessly. So Jiang Hua's first goal was to make peace with the Crown Prince and escape the threat to her life. But the Empress wanted to bring the two of them together and ordered them to travel to Liangzhou. Liangzhou was fraught with danger, and the Crown Prince revealed a side of himself no one had ever seen. That gave Jiang Hua a second plan: marry the Crown Prince, get rid of his beloved, and avenge her birth mother. But her plan was exposed, and the Crown Prince tried to kill her. Jiang Hua fled in the middle of the night and ended up becoming the Emperor's woman, making her the Crown Prince's young stepmother. But then the Crown Prince went mad...