Empress Dowager, the Sickly Former Emperor Has Returned in a New Body

[One-on-one romance + both leads devoted only to each other + obsessive hero reborn in another’s body + hero dotes on heroine beyond measure + sweet romance + yandere + equally matched leads]

Jiang Yunyan loved Xiao Yuanzheng, only for him to turn around and offer her as a gift to curry favor with the new emperor, a madman who had clawed his way to power over mountains of corpses.

Xiao Yuanyong had murdered his father and older brother. His moods were unpredictable, and his possessiveness was pathologically intense.

He kept her locked by his side for seven whole years, forbidding anyone from even looking at her for too long.

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Later, Xiao Yuanyong died suddenly from poison. Jiang Yunyan took the throne with their young son and ruled from behind the curtain as empress dowager.

But the civil and military officials demanded that she, the late emperor’s favorite concubine, be buried with him. She responded with thunderous force, purging the court and executing the ministers who had led the demand for her sacrifice.

Next, she personally set a trap and sent Prince Li Xiao Yuanzheng, the man who had given her away like a gift, to the afterlife.

Who could have expected that the very next day, Prince Li, who should have been dead, would stand before her completely unharmed?

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Xiao Yuanyong’s soul had possessed Prince Li’s body. He was convinced she and Xiao Yuanzheng had conspired to poison him, and that the son she had given birth to wasn’t his.

He had returned from the dead intending to drag her down to hell with him. Yet when he saw her again, his heart still betrayed him, racing wildly for this woman.

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“Yanyan.” He pinned her against the imperial desk, his voice low and frenzied. “You’d better give me an explanation.”

Jiang Yunyan raised her hand and slapped him across the face. “Your Highness, Prince Li, please behave yourself.”

But he only laughed, his smile sickly and satisfied, pulling her even tighter into his arms. “Yanyan, that was a good one. Hit me again.”

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The yandere hero will return to his original body, and the villainous second male lead will be reborn too.