[Gorgeous, scheming heroine who builds her career × reborn, unhinged tyrant × sweet romance with a contrast × palace intrigue and redemption × both leads devoted only to each other]
In his previous life, Emperor Zhaoming Xiao Yan was a mad tyrant who wielded power over the court and treated everyone like a chess piece, until he personally caused the death of the one woman who had ever truly loved him.
He watched her die before his eyes, his heart ripped apart with pain. He wanted to slaughter everyone under heaven to bury them with her.
When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn in the year she entered the palace.
This time, he puts away all his ruthlessness and pretends to be a man of noble virtue. All he wants is to protect the moon in his heart and give her a smooth, happy life.
Liu Siyi was born into the body of a concubine-born daughter of the Marquis of Ningyuan. Her mother was murdered, leaving her with no one to rely on. She saw through the filthy truth of the great houses long ago.
Rather than become someone's concubine and suffer humiliation, she'd rather enter the palace and fight for a future, becoming an empress dowager revered by all and taking power into her own hands.
She enters the palace armed with a complete playbook for palace intrigue, with a clear goal: build her career, claim the empress's throne, and crush everyone who stands in her way.
But she never imagined that before she could even begin scheming, the crown prince, rumored to be sinister and ruthless, would become obsessed with her like a madman.
Someone frames her, and he immediately strips them of their position. Someone trips her up, and he turns around and confiscates their entire household. She casually mentions something she wants, and overnight he lays everything in the world at her feet.
Watching him display such blatant double standards, Liu Yimian is completely dumbfounded.
“Wasn't I supposed to be the heroine of a palace-intrigue story? How did he turn the whole thing into a sweet romance where he's devoted to me alone?!”
Wasn't he supposed to be the villainous final boss? How did he become the overprotective maniac who's always on my side?!
