Caged Beauty: The Amnesiac Moonlight of a Cold-Blooded Tyrant

[Substitute love triangle + rekindled romance + intense push and pull + seductive heroine + return of the first love + groveling to win her back]

Three years ago, Jiang Li, the Grand Tutor's legitimate daughter, was driven by her family into the moat. She became the most hated lost love in the heart of the Seventh Prince, Xiao Zheng. Xiao Zheng waded through blood to seize the throne, becoming a ruthless and merciless emperor. At his side was Shen Yurou, an imperial consort who looked seven parts like Jiang Li.

Then the frontier presented a blind woman with white silk wrapped over her eyes.

In the great hall, she timidly took half a step back, and the tyrant crushed his imperial cup with his bare hand, blood streaming down his fingers.

Everyone thought she was an amnesiac tribute woman, lowborn and easy to bully. No one knew she had never lost her memories, nor had she ever been blind. She had returned only to force Xiao Zheng to place the phoenix crown on her substitute's head with his own hands, in exchange for her freedom.

He hated her, imprisoned her, and humiliated her, yet time and again her tears brought him to his knees.

On the day of the empress's coronation, the phoenix crown settled on Shen Yurou's head. Jiang Li pulled off the white silk and faked her death with a smile.

At last, the tyrant understood: weakness was a blade, devotion was a trap, and he had already lost utterly.