He was Chu Zhao, the sinister villain who controlled the entire imperial court.
When the emperor tried to resist, he gave a soft laugh and wiped out the emperor's entire clan with a wave of his hand.
When the ministers tried to resist, he merely furrowed his brow. The ringleaders were all branded traitors, and their entire clans were exiled thousands of miles away.
He could have become emperor himself, but refused to sit on the throne. He found it far more amusing to hold the entire dynasty in his hands and toy with it, watching those around him grow fearful, frightened, and trembling, than to rule as emperor.
Su Yao was a homebody from the modern world who transmigrated after staying up all night reading a novel and dying suddenly. What baffled her even more was that... she had transmigrated into the very novel she had been reading. The System told her that if she survived in this world for three years, she could return to her original one. So, under the mad prince's tyrannical rule, she managed to scrape by for three whole years...