The Regent Prince's Beloved Zha Yue

Lin Keyue transmigrated and, from the start, became a lowly maid sweeping the floors in the Prime Minister's residence, bullied by everyone and nearly frozen to death in the snow. Her life was worth no more than a blade of grass, and everyone could trample her. But she was determined to turn the tables. An expert at reading people, she deftly played four powerful, high-quality men, pretending to be gentle and affectionate. Her tender childhood friend offered a soft place to land. A young general took a blade for her, staining his clothes with blood. A cold, sickly genius doctor brewed medicine for her until every finger was wounded. And the emperor, ruler of all under heaven, willingly fell for her, keeping her by his side and promising she would be his one and only. She pretended to care, playing along and keeping every man's devotion dangling before him. She made use of all their love, keeping her pond full of fish while never giving her own heart. The only exception was Xie Wuyuan, the powerful, unhinged Regent who held the court in his grasp. He was a cold-blooded demon feared by all, a decisive and merciless ruler who had trampled over mountains of corpses. Yet this mighty minister, who looked down on the world, was humble and obsessed with her, loving her with all his heart. He knew her affections were false and that she had countless other men on the hook, yet he still willingly bowed his head, offering her his power and his heart as he waited at her side. In a secluded corner of the palace, he held her captive and gladly surrendered himself to her. “Lin Keyue, if it's my life you want, take it. I only ask that you look at me when you do.” Bai Ruoyao, who was infatuated with the Regent, grew jealous and devised one poisonous scheme after another, hiring assassins to harm Lin Keyue and humbly begging the Regent for his affection. But Xie Wuyuan remained cold and merciless, protecting Lin Keyue to the end. “If she loses even a single hair, the entire Bai family will be buried with her.” In the end, Bai Ruoyao's schemes all came to nothing. She was left disfigured and disabled, and spent the rest of her life insane. Evil gets its just deserts, and there will be no redemption for her. From a lowly nobody in the gutter to the pinnacle of the imperial capital, Lin Keyue cast off her humble past and donned the phoenix crown and wedding robes.